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Re: Acme Weather

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Post by joe_hills »

joecool1029 wrote: post #93

Does anyone know if the subscription can be shared with family?

I was looking at the in-app purchases list and it doesn't explicitly have a family-sharing plan like Weather Line does.

This looks great and I'd definitely consider switching my family Weather Line plan over to an Acme Weather family plan if it becomes possible.

Re: Acme Weather

#103

Post by malfist »

gcanyon wrote: post #69
gregoriol wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funniest thing is how they leave the company they sold their weather app to... to start another weather app.

The team/person responsible for Woot sold it to Amazon, and then launched Meh the day their non-compete ended, along with a manifesto explaining how badly they thought Amazon had handled Woot.

Got a link to the manifesto? My kagi-fu isn't finding it

Re: Acme Weather

#104

Post by MuEta »

This app looks great! Only thing I can't find is snow / rain accumulation, which is extremely important when living in the mountains.

Re: Acme Weather

#105

Post by scratchyone »

mlrtime wrote: post #57
imarkphillips wrote: post #21

How about reporting on yesterday's weather? Its hard to plan a walk in the forest today if I dont know how much it rained yesterday.

Weather history sounds like a awesome feature. Sort of like a farmers almanac built into a modern weather app?

CARROT has this and it’s amazing! You can “time travel” back as far as you want. Absurdly far, even. I can tell you that it was 20 degrees in my town on Jan 1st, 1940.

Re: Acme Weather

#106

Post by tshaddox »

mlrtime wrote: post #57
imarkphillips wrote: post #21

How about reporting on yesterday's weather? Its hard to plan a walk in the forest today if I dont know how much it rained yesterday.

Weather history sounds like a awesome feature. Sort of like a farmers almanac built into a modern weather app?

Carrot Weather’s most expensive subscriptions include 30-day history.

Re: Acme Weather

#107

Post by gcanyon »

malfist wrote: post #103
gcanyon wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The team/person responsible for Woot sold it to Amazon, and then launched Meh the day their non-compete ended, along with a manifesto explaining how badly they thought Amazon had handled Woot.

Got a link to the manifesto? My kagi-fu isn't finding it

I have no clue where I read it, that was back when meh.com launched eleven-ish years ago. I didn't find it in a hot minute of searching either. I did find these, some of which talk about the circumstances obliquely:

https://www.ecommercefuel.com/woot/

https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/27/woot-reborn-as-meh/

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/...

https://meh.com/forum/topics/year-one-meh-stats--mediocre-st...

Re: Acme Weather

#108

Post by hypercube33 »

marbletiles wrote: post #20

This team really have been thinking about weather a lot , and it makes me very curious about what they’ve created this time. It’s that depth of thought and expertise that feels missing from most of the vibe-coded launches we’ve seen recently. I actually wouldn’t mind if Acme had vibe coded parts, but I bet they didn’t.

I'm almost shocked we don't have a large weather model instead of a language model. Seems right up the alley.

Also I don't get what happened but I think it was AccuWeather or weather underground in the early 2000s where it was to the minute accurate and it seems like it's gotten worse since everywhere.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by pavon »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #91
khalic wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never understood using that metric, doesn’t temp and wind give you enough info? Genuine question

Dew point and relative humidity, along with temperature and wind, are crucial measures to predicting how you will feel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidity#Relative_humidity In the US, the 100th meridian is a popular demarcation for the half of the country that experiences high humidity versus the other half that experiences low humidity. It is why 100F in Phoenix, Arizona i…

Do any feel-like estimates take cloud cover into consideration? It doesn't seem like it, but in a high altitude desert like NM, it is a huge factor. Furthermore, the magnitude of the effect varies depending on the day of year and time of day (how much atmosphere the sun passes through), so you can't just mentally add 10 degrees or something. And it isn't just based on the immediate conditions - if it has been cloudy all morning it will feel cooler even after the sun comes out then it will if the ground has been baking in the sun all morning. Some of that is accounted for by the air temperature (conductive heating of the air by the ground), but there is also a radiative heating effect as well. I would love an app that tried to incorporate those factors into it's "feels-like" estimate.

Re: Acme Weather

#110

Post by wlonkly »

greatgib wrote: post #42

We don't care about a Weather app. Very easy to do and there are millions of it. What is missing is good freely accessible data /api for weather info. Most free one are disappearing and frustratingly in most countries, the weather agency you pay with your tax will not provide it for you.

I care! I have to cross-reference multiple apps to get a good detailed forecast, a "minutecast" of precipitation, and Canadian humidex and windchill numbers. I haven't tried this one yet because I'm a little confused why it didn't offer me a free trial, but if it gives me all of that then I am sold.
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