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Is it going to rain?
- kylec 18y agoI like how simple it is, but it definitely needs an RSS feed. Seeing as they're using some sort of IP geolocation, it would be cool if the forecast 'followed' me in the feed when I switched locations.
- wonka 18y agoThat would be pretty pointless considering RSS feeds are cached.
- ahpeeyem 18y agoI think "pointless" is going a bit overboard, it's up to the client to decide how long to cache a feed, and the cache policy for the feed should use normal HTTP conventions - the Last-modified, If-modified-since and Expires headers. If the feed expired in 60 minutes that would be enough to update for changing locations.
- arohner 18y agoI bet it breaks on google reader, and similar browser-based feeds.
- cool-RR 18y agoGreat idea!
- joshsharp 18y agoIt picked my location perfectly, but then gave me a temperature in Fahrenheit. All you need now is to match locations to measurement standards (ie. US, UK and that one other country imperial, all others metric).
- Oompa 18y agoWould be nice to switch between C and F. I'm in Atlanta, but I prefer to see temperature as degrees Celsius.
- pwoods 18y agoIt's always nice to meet progressive Oompa Loompas
- FiReaNG3L 18y agoThat, and I think its going to snow here, not rain :P
- there 18y agogoingtoprecipitate.com seemed like too long a name :)
- jodrellblank 18y agopredicipate.com With unicode domain names, you could have preticipation?.com, although it may look a mess in non-Firefox browsers.
- axod 18y ago☂?.com
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- eyudkowsky 18y agoOh, that was subtle.
- bluishgreen 18y agoI grew up in a metric place, in bay area now - But I can never get an instinctive feel for temperature unless its told to me in metric.
- a-priori 18y agoUndocumented features from the HTML source: try /XXXXX for a specific zip code or /tomorrow for tomorrow's forecast
- daveambrose 18y agoInteresting. Nice find.
- TobiasCassell 18y agoLooks gorgeous. Has anyone built a startup addressing how hard it is to properly search if an idea already exists? http://umbrellatoday.com/ http://umbrellatoday.com/
- andyking 18y agoBut that site has the "enter your zip code" wall, a wholly unfriendly stumbling block for a non-US user to be faced with on any site. (You'd be surprised how many people, erm, "live" in 90210 on signup forms!) goingtorain.com somehow detected my precise town and told me straight.
- whatusername 18y agoI live in 90210 in most forms on the net. (Okay - and my name is often George Bush or Bill Clinton)
- DEinspanjer 18y agoBah! Silly BevHills holds nothing on Schenectady, NY. http://benfry.com/zipdecode/ http://benfry.com/zipdecode/
- edb 18y agoI hear ya. My name is Bill Gates and I sign up to an unheard of amount of services from my apt in the 90210 area. Thank god for the great spam filter I have on my personal email: support@microsoft.com, I get alot of spam there for some reason
- ahpeeyem 18y agoyeah goingtorain.com wins. It has location detection and you can use it outside the USA, which is handy for me since I've only spent 0.04% of my life there. I am a lover of putting 90210 as my zip code though, I did it by reflex to try out umbrellatoday.com haha
- Thr4wn 18y agoI agree that there's a logrithmic scale between usage-required and annoyance perceived. ie, that one click is a huge difference compared to literally doing nothing (but hitting a bookmark, or maybe it's your home page). However, umbrellatoday has txting ability; which is not on goingtorain.com.
- parenthesis 18y agoHow does it know where you are?
- newt0311 18y agogeolocation. Info. on wikipedia. In summary: A reverse-DNS search through the DNS system combined with more information from geolocation DBs can usually pinpoint location to within a few miles unless the user goes to some lengths to hide it (ie. use VPNs, tor, ip spoofing, etc...). Several free databases available if you want to do this yourself.
- Andys 18y agoIt isn't that accurate outside of the USA.
- paulgb 18y agoWorked for me (Waterloo, ON)
- paraschopra 18y agoWorked for me too! Gurgaon, India
- pierrefar 18y agoActually, unless you're on AOL or a handful of other IPs, you can geolocate too >99% accuracy to a country level for free. See this: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity . The city accuracy outside the US is not great.
- rtra 18y agoWorks for me. Lisbon, Portugal.
- BvS 18y agoWorked for me. Berlin - Germany
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- crabapple 18y agomatching ips to locales is not new.
- ashu 18y agohow insightful, sir! this forum is indebted.
- trickjarrett 18y agoNo indeed it isn't, nor is pointless commenting on news stories. This post was of another minimalist .com that serves a single purpose without the extra noise or cruft other sites that provide that information carry.
- there 18y agohey, that's my site. it's been up for a while but it got posted to stumbleupon the other day and has been seeing a ton of traffic. glad it's of use to anyone other than myself. i made it one day after being annoyed with all the junk on weather.com. i just wanted a simple answer whether it was going to rain so i knew which car i could drive that day.
- bemmu 18y agoWhere do you get the data?
- there 18y agomaxmind for the ip geolocation, google for the weather
- jyothi 18y agosimple and neat. Great app. - The weather details could be a slightly more bold. - It is not intuitive to press enter when i click to change the location though. - Does a google gadget exist for this so that i can put this on my iGoogle page?
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- blasdel 18y agoThe 'helvetica' included with nearly all X servers is a terrible bitmap that maxes out at 16pt. Some windows installations also have a similar crapfest. I recommend using font-family:"helvetica neue", arial, sans-serif;
- robg 18y agoI really dig the simplicity - in the app and in use. We have a dynamic IP that's not even remotely tied to our location (Hughes Net Satellite) and so it seems to get reset every time we get a new IP. Any way to implement some cookie to save the zip code?
- simianstyle 18y agolol @ div#prophylactic
- whatusername 18y agoMatched my location to a suburb. Failed to have data for that suburb though - only for the capital city. (and only for today - /tomorrow doesnt work) Also - saying that it will "maybe" rain in Melbourne is a bit of a cop-out - considering we are famous for having 4 seasons in a day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_in_One_Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_in_One_Day)
- weegee 18y agomaybe
- terpua 18y agoAn automatic email if it is going to rain would be handy.
- trickjarrett 18y agoUmbrellatoday.com sends you an sms at 7am if it's going to rain on that day.
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- kalvin 18y agoQuestion: I've always wanted to see today's temperature in terms of yesterday's, so like, "it's going to be 5 degrees warmer." Anyone know if this service is already offered somewhere?
- hopeless 18y agoI only wish http://www.doineedajacket.com/ http://www.doineedajacket.com/ would look as clean and lose the clutter (ads, discussions, blah, blah, blah). However, I still prefer it because it gives a reason for needing a jacket (it's chilly, rain etc) and works across the world.
- jrnkntl 18y agoIn the Netherlands we've got http://www.buienradar.nl http://www.buienradar.nl, pretty cluttered with ads but it's more accurate than a 'maybe' :) You can see when rain clouds are approaching your area; almost 'real time' ;)
- ahpeeyem 18y agoYeah Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has radar images online as well: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.shtml http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.shtml Shows actual rainfall though, not clouds, so it can be grey and dark outside but look clear on the radar.
- jakewolf 18y agoCheck out http://www.weather.gov/xml/ http://www.weather.gov/xml/ for another source of weather data.
- ryanspahn 18y agoNice job! I saw a similar service called umbrellatoday too. A month or so ago we ( http://sleep.fm http://sleep.fm ) launched wake up to ur weather report. We speak the weather to you upon zip code entry/alarm time passing. Thought I'd share via the relevancy of this post. Congrats on your launch!
- kilps 18y agoNicely done - except it says it won't rain, so I looked outside - no wait it is raining. From other comments looks like Google's fault though - but still: putting that my emphasis on one aspect of the forecast and then getting it wrong ...
- lst 18y agoNice and fine, but here in Europe, in times of satellites, you might sit in another country as your ISP, so the actual location might differ quite a bit.
- kleneway 18y agoI love this site. Last year I posted an idea on my blog that was a collection of extremely simple sites where you get instant answers to questions like this. Is it raining, did the Cubs win today, is the stock market up or down, etc... Cool to see this one in action. http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/startup-32-is-it/ http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/startup-32-is-i...