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Show HN: Sundial – a new way to look at a weather forecast(sundial.page)
28 points by izaidi 8 hours ago | 11 comments
Finnoid 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Very neat! I like that I get a better “feel” of the whole day’s weather from the ring than most weather apps.

But it takes a bit more thinking and interaction to understand how the weather develops. For example, I like to see how the temperature changes during the day and for that, I find a graph illustrates the hourly changes better than just numbers and colors, but the information is obviously available here too. Just requires but more thinking from the user.

Are you thinking adding other things like humidity and wind? If so, would you try to fit more information to the dial or add some popups or something else?

Unai 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Pretty cool idea and execution. This is the first weather app I can see myself using instead of whatever my phone or google puts in front of me; but I often need more data, mostly humidity and wind speed and direction. Also rain seems to be a boolean, but precipitation percentages would be much more clear.

Having both the dial and the more common horizontal table / graph would make it the perfect weather app for me. Maybe those could be integrated into the dial, like wavy rings?

In any case, nicely done!

cousinbryce 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is great. Showing only even hours would be less text, maybe as an option. As I’m looking at it to plan late night activities it shows this mornings forecast where I kind of expect tomorrow’s. Maybe make a continual S curve that can be scrolled by touch? Maybe less elegant, maybe more?

DanDeBugger 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very cool and sick. Visually awesome and creative. Though the practicality of this spinning thing I wonder vs just the weather app.

1attice 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love this, thanks! Using it reminds me of iPod, what with the rotary navigation of time

adammarples 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dates would be nice I got lost

david1-618 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is fun to look at.

allears 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nice display, but the forecast doesn't agree with NOAA.

izaidi 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The data's from Google (via their new WeatherNext 2 model) -- as I understand it they get their raw data from NOAA/NWS but their forecasting model is different. I'll see about using the NWS API for US locations.

Leftium 7 hours ago | parent [-]

https://open-meteo.com API is pretty good for weather forecasts, too.

manishfoodtechs 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In one word: WONDERFUL