2 points | by Leftium 5 hours ago
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Curious though: do users miss the numbers when they need precise decisions?
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
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.
- 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.
- You can also tap any unit to toggle.
- But the main point of WeatherSense is to transcend units ^^
Curious though: do users miss the numbers when they need precise decisions?
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
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.
- 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.
---
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.
- You can also tap any unit to toggle.
- But the main point of WeatherSense is to transcend units ^^