i badly want weather radar that doesn't suck
I think http://fullscreenweather.com is pretty good.
What's so special with minimalweather.com?
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Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?
#52Nine times out of ten I want to know the weather X hours from now, not the current weather or the weather Y hours in the past.
Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?
#53Very nice as a hack. I am not sure about the usability of it, and a lot of the comments already capture that. If you really wanted to hack this, how about the following:
1. You package it as an app (not that hard to do, from where you'll be starting)
2. You let people set parameters for how often they want to be notified, for which city and in which scale
3. You use the push notification feature to push them the notifications as per their settings.
But all that's just trying to create the better weather app/notifier. And there's tons of ways to do that.
What you've done is really cool with the icon becoming the widget, and for that, it is a great idea. Makes me think what else you could be using this hack for - not just weather. Imagine sponsorship space - share icon space with main advertiser for a content app. Or display your high score in a game. Or show the last badge you earned in a gamified app....the possibilities are endless. Very cool hack!
Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?
#54Is there a weather app that shows me the weather right now relative to the weather at the same time yesterday?
I don't know about you guys but I always evaluate weather in relative terms("it's cooler than yesterday morning") and yet most apps just throw the temperature at you...which could be wildly deceiving depending on wind etc.
Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?
#55Is there a weather app that shows me the weather right now relative to the weather at the same time yesterday ? I don't know about you guys but I always evaluate weather in relative terms("it's cooler than yesterday morning") and yet most apps just throw the temperature at you...which could be wildly deceiving depending on wind etc.
It's not an app (or at least, it isn't a standalone feature of an app), but if you search on wolfram alpha, it usually provides a handy graph for the past. I'm always wondering the same thing as well.
eg http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+san+francisco
and hit "more" when the "Weather history & forecast" section shows up. I don't know how permanent this URL is, but here's the result I get from that:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/pod.jsp?id=MSP32441a2b0ia1...
I would love to see a better interface on that data as a standalone app.
Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?
#56So the icon shows what the weather was the previous time you ran it? Maybe I'm misunderstanding it but it seems like an anti-feature to me.
Yes. I already have a weather icon on my iPhone that doesn't show the actual weather until I open it. Right now it tells me it's 73 and sunny!
yeah, that annoys me. The calendar shows the current date! Why doesn't the weather icon show real weather? Or at least, not fake weather.
Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?
#57Is there a weather app that shows me the weather right now relative to the weather at the same time yesterday ? I don't know about you guys but I always evaluate weather in relative terms("it's cooler than yesterday morning") and yet most apps just throw the temperature at you...which could be wildly deceiving depending on wind etc.
I've tried a lot of weather apps, and my favorite, by far, is eWeatherHD. It does just what you're asking - with a last 24 hour trace of temp and barometric pressure. It will also show you the next 12 hours of temp, what temp it feels like, chance precip, UV index, and other things.
Not affiliated in any way, but really appreciate all the details in this app, and was annoyed at all the app purchases I'd made that only showed a portion of what I wanted to know.
I also like the sunrise/set, moonrise/set, moon phase info. I only miss tide info, but am not at the beach that often anyway.
Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?
#58This will be great on my blackberry, all the other free weather apps out there suck.
Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?
#59So the icon shows what the weather was the previous time you ran it? Maybe I'm misunderstanding it but it seems like an anti-feature to me.
There's an app that'll show you the temperature in realtime on the icon without the need to open the app. It's called eWeather HD and uses the notifications feature of iOS in a pretty clever way. The app itself is a little obtuse, but having the temperature right there has made it worthwhile to me. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eweather-hd-weather-forecast/...
I've just realized how impossible it would be for me to live without widgets on the home screen. I've been taking them for granted it seems.
Re: What's so special with minimalweather.com?
#60Pretty clever to generate the image for the app icon.
I did a similar thing where I converted a screenshot of a bus schedule to a data URI and saved it to my homescreen. I did it so I could check the bus schedule in places without service.