Weather.com/Retro

I love how it's built. How they did the blurring and filter stacking. I assumed the whole thing was being streamed in as video.

Good job Weather Channel dev. I just wish it would loop forever. Make a loop checkbox at the start screen.

Also the music slaps.

	▲	deepfriedbits a minute ago \| parent [-]
		I agree. It's really cool. I wonder if this was written with AI assistance. Seems like the perfect kind of fun project that a dev team would really be able to crank out pretty quickly whereas five years ago, there might not have been time or budget for something like this.

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wolrah 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This appears to be a fairly low effort simulation of a WeatherStar 4000, but it's been done much better by someone else here: https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/

Also for those of us like me who grew up with a cable provider that still ran the old WeatherStar III, there's this one: https://weatherstar3000.netbymatt.com/

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Implement7347 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The blurring/low quality effect in the weather.com version is so much convincing, it feels like watching it through a CRT tv

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troad 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This may be an age or geography thing, but Weather.com/Retro looks a lot more like the weather channels I remember than either of your two links.

I don't think they were trying to recreate the thing you were expecting, but it seems a little harsh to call it low effort. It's neat! A fun little nod to their history.

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Waterluvian 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is pretty neat. I think I probably get this transmission on Infochammel.

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efilife 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The one you posted works only for americans

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kube-system an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Because, IIRC (it has been a while since I’ve looked at the code) it grabs weather from the US National Weather Service… which is also a primary source of data for the original WeatherStar.

It’s useful for this purpose because all of the data is in the same format as the original down to the different forecast types and phrasing used

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wolrah 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Were the real things ever available outside of America?

Either way, thanks to the wonders of open source here's a fork that works for other parts of the world: https://mwood77.github.io/ws4kp-international/