Show HN: Beautiful intuitive weather forecasts that don't rely on numbers/units

2 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by Leftium
(weather-sense.leftium.com)

8 Comments

rallypi

5 hours ago

Interesting idea — feels very intuitive.

Curious though: do users miss the numbers when they need precise decisions?

Leftium

5 hours ago

The numbers are still there (unless "calm" mode is enabled.) You can scrub any of the plots to get the precise values for the metrics at that time.

The colors + space simply help you understand the numbers better.

(Weather forecast precision is artificial "because weather forecasts fundamentally have very high uncertainty and error bands"[1])

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46570599

rzzzwilson

9 hours ago

Any way to change units? My location uses the metric system.

Leftium

8 hours ago

There is a unit toggle button right below the day tiles. Your selection should be persisted across page loads.

- You can also tap any unit to toggle.

- But the main point of WeatherSense is to transcend units ^^

Cider9986

6 hours ago

It is not beautiful for me on Mobile

Leftium

6 hours ago

Can you clarify? Is the rendering broken on mobile?

I just checked, and the responsive layout seems to render correctly on Android Firefox/Chrome and iOS Safari.

You can even save WeatherSense to your home screen as a simple progressive web app.

Cider9986

6 hours ago

I don't like the color scheme with the gradients; nothing functionally wrong, just my reaction.

Leftium

6 hours ago

The gradients actually serve a purpose:

- You can see the weekly high/low temperature trends by scanning down vertically along the left.

- Redder color means warmer; bluer means cooler.

- The gradient is constant for all data plots, so you can visually compare the temperature across days and hours.

- The gradient block for each day goes from the high to the low temp for that day.

- Even the hourly temperature plot line is calibrated to the same gradient.

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The sky background gradient is slightly superfluous, but it's very subtle and meant to emulate (a more vibrant) version of the actual sky.

For anyone who wants more gradients: there's a setting here: https://weather-sense.leftium.com/wmo-codes

I disabled those by default because they were distracting and didn't serve a purpose.