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I have a quick bug to report. The location search has some flaws and appears to match the first city it finds regardless of any state added. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that the location string is returned to the user exactly how it is entered, so the bug is not immediately evident.

One example, "Portland", "Portland, ME", "Portland, Maine", and "Portland, Fake State" all return the weather for Portland, Oregon.

Came here to report this for towns in New York and Connecticut with duplicate names. It returned 59* when we are in the middle of a snow storm

You should consider a geo-ip lookup for an initial location recommendation, even if its not perfect.

If we are going to ask for geo-ip features, it could also switch between °F and °C accordingly.

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As newyorkersays, this would be much more interesting (i.e. almost verging on moderately) if it wasn't looking up weather alone, but triangulating for local fashion.

Distinctly interesting if it was backed by image processing and machine learning based on public pictures taken in the local, e.g. weighted for probability picture was taken by a local or tourist; season; year...

Lol.

Go nuts. https://github.com/johndavidback/can-i-wear-shorts

It would be helpful if we could get the temperature in Celsius.

I wrote a similar\silly binary weather service (using the OpenWeather api) at http://taps.af

"Taps aff" is a Scottish way to talk about taking your shirt off on warm (read: >20C) days. I've also seen drunk people in some pubs shout "TAPS AFF, LADS!!" and a bunch of their drunk pals took their tshirts off and necked shots of tequila. Scotland is weird :-/

Oh and "Aye" means "yes", "Naw" means "no"

edit: awww it's down, sorry

Your location system does not seem to work in the US.

This website: http://thefuckshouldiwear.com/ Shows correctly my location (Albany, NY).

Your website does not find my location and when I manually write Albany, NY in the bottom, it doesn't work either!

It should ask for your wife's phone number and let her answer for you.

- "Can I Wear Shorts Today?"

- "Maybe."

Gee, thanks.

First thing I entered was the name of a German town. I got "Nein" as response and thought that it's a nice touch to provide localized responses. Then I tried some other cities and saw that it's random. Now I feel a bit disappointed.

So where's your weather data coming from? Because it says that it's 61˚ here (actual temperature: 31˚F), and a quick survey of online weather services all show the correct figure.

http://caniwearshorts.today/?location=Qu%C3%A9bec

^ will trigger an error

This reminds me of the "weather rock" that often appears in rustic campsites.

You remember it, don't you? If the rock is wet, there's rain. If it's swinging, there's wind. If you can barely see it, there's fog. If it's smoking, lightning strike. If it's gone, tornado. If it comes back, duck!

Hey, you left debug mode on - noticed it as I tried it with my city (Vác), which raised a UnicodeEncodeError.

Yep, Montréal blows up with a unicode error.

Good twist to a weather app. Since ever tutorial that teaches you how to code wants you to make one.

The answer is always no.

Or perhaps 'at home, always yes - going out, probably no'.

"Does this place exist?"

Seriously? I put in the capital of a G7 nation and I get "does this place exist?"

I mean, I know this is a joke of site, but that's so lazy it hurts.

That's weird. I thought you may have been misspelling the city name but I get a temperature even if I mash on my keyboard.

I put in "Canada" with nothing else, and even still got an answer back.

http://caniwearshorts.today/?location=Jyv%C3%A4skyl%C3%A4

Yep: http://caniwearshorts.today/?location=S%C3%A3o+Paulo

Love how some sites hate unicode...

Would be interesting to use answers based on relative temperatures rather than absolute measures.

It may be be a shorts day in NY if its 60F but not in FL.

"Server Error (500)" on any query with accents in them. Try "Brasília", for example, Brasil's capital.

Seems a lot like http://thefuckshouldiwear.com/

Store my location in a cookie or local storage -- I'll just check the page every day before I head out the door.

Just bookmark it after searching.

46°F in the midwest is a no? :P

it's saying Longwood, fl is 32* F snowing, but in reality it's 86* F mostly sunny. A few other cities I checked looked correct, though

I still have snow outside my window!

you're running in debug mode. and apparently umlauts (äöü etc) break your site.

No.

If you're a New Yorker the answer should always be "No".

OTOH, if you are an upstate New Yorker, the answer is going to be "Yes" far more than you would expect.

Probably fine if you're not planning to hang out with the faux-elite in the Meatpacking District.

If you have to do it, this is the only appropriate way to rock shorts in the city: http://leroyjenkinslimited.com/2013-summer/

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Grandparent is not talking about the weather.

Perfectly useless. I hope you didn't spend too much time or money on this.

Relax, it was for fun

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