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Improved Google Weather

47 points by artursapek 15y ago

kleiba 15y ago
Can someone explain, please? I don't seem to get a much different result than before?
- kalleboo 15y ago
  They added a feature to let you change the weather if you don't like it. Screenshots if you're not seeing it: http://imgb.mp/h8k.jpg http://imgb.mp/h8k.jpg http://imgb.mp/h8l.jpg http://imgb.mp/h8l.jpg
  - bostonvaulter2 15y ago
    Oh, I thought that Update Weather was something related to choosing a different city to look at the weather for.
- ww520 15y ago
  The delay in updating the weather really takes the "wind" out of the April Fool joke.
- Radzell 15y ago
  They made you a master over weather.
- espinchi 15y ago
  Try changing the weather in your city to "Heavy Snow". Wait 45 minutes and you'll see the difference.
  - kleiba 15y ago
    Nope, my browser is too old - I don't get that option.
jrockway 15y ago
Coming next year: self-driving weather machines!
mikemoka 15y ago
.. this is clearly an April Fools joke.. "do you agree to be responsible for the weather in Seattle?". I'd say yes, but I have a feel that Chuck Norris,who's actually in charge, might not like that.
zerostar07 15y ago
Needs better wording. At first i thought it was a wiki-like effort to collect more accurate temperature information (far fetched, i know, but i 'm conditioned). I dismissed it without realizing its aprilfoolness
- phillco 15y ago
  Also, after you set the weather it doesn't actually edit the weather display, there's just a "Dismiss" button. It would have been so much cooler if it did that. Ooh! And then stored the result in a cookie so every time you go back it shows "your" weather. You could wow your friends by showing them how you can edit Google.* Ah well. * Actually, this could be an even better April Fool's joke: rearrange and edit the Google search results.
tathagatadg 15y ago
Looks like they were a bit hasty in doing it. When I search "weather chicago" it breaks ... http://flic.kr/p/bHDLKn http://flic.kr/p/bHDLKn
ORioN63 15y ago
I've left my coffee on the window, then I changed the temperature to 100 Celsius. It's been a hour. It's getting colder and colder. Does not work!! lol
- driax 15y ago
  You must be insane. Good thing it didn't work! :)

47 points by artursapek 15y ago

kleiba 15y ago

Can someone explain, please? I don't seem to get a much different result than before?

kalleboo 15y ago
They added a feature to let you change the weather if you don't like it. Screenshots if you're not seeing it: http://imgb.mp/h8k.jpg http://imgb.mp/h8k.jpg http://imgb.mp/h8l.jpg http://imgb.mp/h8l.jpg
- bostonvaulter2 15y ago
  Oh, I thought that Update Weather was something related to choosing a different city to look at the weather for.
ww520 15y ago
The delay in updating the weather really takes the "wind" out of the April Fool joke.
Radzell 15y ago
They made you a master over weather.
espinchi 15y ago
Try changing the weather in your city to "Heavy Snow". Wait 45 minutes and you'll see the difference.
- kleiba 15y ago
  Nope, my browser is too old - I don't get that option.

jrockway 15y ago

Coming next year: self-driving weather machines!

mikemoka 15y ago

.. this is clearly an April Fools joke.. "do you agree to be responsible for the weather in Seattle?". I'd say yes, but I have a feel that Chuck Norris,who's actually in charge, might not like that.

zerostar07 15y ago

Needs better wording. At first i thought it was a wiki-like effort to collect more accurate temperature information (far fetched, i know, but i 'm conditioned). I dismissed it without realizing its aprilfoolness

phillco 15y ago
Also, after you set the weather it doesn't actually edit the weather display, there's just a "Dismiss" button. It would have been so much cooler if it did that. Ooh! And then stored the result in a cookie so every time you go back it shows "your" weather. You could wow your friends by showing them how you can edit Google.* Ah well. * Actually, this could be an even better April Fool's joke: rearrange and edit the Google search results.

tathagatadg 15y ago

Looks like they were a bit hasty in doing it. When I search "weather chicago" it breaks ... http://flic.kr/p/bHDLKn http://flic.kr/p/bHDLKn

ORioN63 15y ago

I've left my coffee on the window, then I changed the temperature to 100 Celsius. It's been a hour. It's getting colder and colder. Does not work!! lol

driax 15y ago
You must be insane. Good thing it didn't work! :)