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Thanks for the images~ I used to use DarkSky myself, but I had completely forgotten about the vertical precipitation bars! The "minutely" 60 minute precipitati
by Leftium 2y ago
Thanks for the images~ I used to use DarkSky myself, but I had completely forgotten about the vertical precipitation bars!
The "minutely" 60 minute precipitation forecast (graph) is one of the reasons I am re-writing my weather app: I was constantly using other weather apps because my app was missing the 60 minutely forecast. Unfortunately Open-Meteo doesn't provide minutely data, and I wasn't able to get the Apple WeatherKit API working. My plan is to merge the minutely data from https://openweathermap.org https://openweathermap.org
I stole the radar map from Merry Sky because it didn't seem too difficult add. I thought https://www.windy.com https://www.windy.com used to let you zoom out all the way to a globe, but maybe it was a different service?
My current idea is show all the precipitation timelines in a compact "grid" next to where the weather icons are currently rendered. The tick marks will only be shown for the currently "active" day so the grid can be more compact. The precipitation timelines will also overlay the temperature graphed as a sparkline. The sparklines will be normalized so all the timelines share the same min/max temperature.
Hovering/touching a timeline moves the vertical red tracker line and updates the stats in the sticky top section, so you can see the exact numbers. I may also add "ghost" trackers on the other timelines so it is easier to compare the other days.
I wonder how my idea would compare to your idea for vertical timelines?
- al_borland 2y agoSounds interesting. I'll keep an eye on it. Good luck with it. I know a lot of people who feel a bit lost without Dark Sky, so as crowded as the weather app market is, it seems like there is still a gap to fill.