Show HN: Beautiful intuitive weather forecasts that don't rely on numbers/units

- Visualize weather metrics via space and colors

- Compare current/future conditions with weather you experienced the day before

- Understand/compare how conditions change throughout the day

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WeatherSense started out as a hand-coded project: https://github.com/Leftium/weather-sense

- Would you consider this project a good example of how AI can be used to enhance coding?

- Claude helped implement many new features from the backlog, like 60-min precipitation forecasts

- Claude helped add some whimsical features: I only considered adding because AI experimentation is cheap:

* "Calm mode:" truly emphasizes how WeatherSense doesn't need numbers by removing/replacing all numbers from UI

* Dynamic background color based on sun angle (time + location)

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Major inspirations:

- DarkSky

rallypi a day ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting idea — feels very intuitive.

Curious though: do users miss the numbers when they need precise decisions?

	▲	Leftium a day ago \| parent [-]
		The numbers are still there (unless "calm" mode is enabled.) You can scrub any of the plots to get the precise values for the metrics at that time. The colors + space simply help you understand the numbers better. (Weather forecast precision is artificial "because weather forecasts fundamentally have very high uncertainty and error bands"[1]) [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46570599

rzzzwilson a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Any way to change units? My location uses the metric system.

	▲	Leftium a day ago \| parent [-]
		There is a unit toggle button right below the day tiles. Your selection should be persisted across page loads. - You can also tap any unit to toggle. - But the main point of WeatherSense is to transcend units ^^

Cider9986 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It is not beautiful for me on Mobile

Can you clarify? Is the rendering broken on mobile?

I just checked, and the responsive layout seems to render correctly on Android Firefox/Chrome and iOS Safari.

You can even save WeatherSense to your home screen as a simple progressive web app.

I don't like the color scheme with the gradients; nothing functionally wrong, just my reaction.

	▲	Leftium a day ago \| parent [-]
		The gradients actually serve a purpose: - You can see the weekly high/low temperature trends by scanning down vertically along the left. - Redder color means warmer; bluer means cooler. - The gradient is constant for all data plots, so you can visually compare the temperature across days and hours. - The gradient block for each day goes from the high to the low temp for that day. - Even the hourly temperature plot line is calibrated to the same gradient. --- The sky background gradient is slightly superfluous, but it's very subtle and meant to emulate (a more vibrant) version of the actual sky. For anyone who wants more gradients: there's a setting here: https://weather-sense.leftium.com/wmo-codes I disabled those by default because they were distracting and didn't serve a purpose.