Comments on: A Better Weather Page

By: Rachel Mary

Rachel Mary — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:39:17 +0000

I discovered weather.ericson.net via flowingdata.com. It’s been my go-to weather site for a few months now. I love it, and the page works well on an iPhone.

I’d love to have it as an iPhone app. I’ve tried a bunch of iPhone weather apps, but simply browsing to you site beats them all. If you made it, I’m sure people would pay for it.

Well done, sir. And much thanks.

By: Quora

Quora — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:44:08 +0000

What website most elegantly presents weather data?…

Shameless plug here, but I hacked together a weather web site a while ago that had just the stuff I wanted all on a single page: current conditions, 10-high/low, conditions and chance of precipitation, and same thing for the hourly forecast. Forecasts …

By: Davidc86

Davidc86 — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:00:29 +0000

I like your current (colored) icons. They are clean and simple.

I agree with Clint: headings over the “Day” “Time” “Temp” etc. that says “Hourly Forecast” and “10-day Forecast” would be helpful — but the design of the layout is so clean and minimalist, I’d hate to see that messed up.

Marking the day changes with added space, would might mess up how the rows line up. So, I’d lean away from that.

But I do find it hard to see when it’s day and night in the chart. Would it be a pain to have 6pm – 6am rows in a gray-shaded background? Or maybe it’d be simpler to just make the background around the weather icons black for the night hours and clear (like they are now) for daylight hours. (I think that’d be sharp.)

Just some thoughts.
Thanks for a great, clean, simple, layout. It’s great!

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:15:29 +0000

THANK YOU!!! I’ve felt the same way abou weather pages. I actually googled “better website than weather.com” and this came up.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:56:09 +0000

Love this page! It’s my go-to weather page now. One thing I wish is for yesterday’s high/lo, so I can compare whether today is warmer or colder.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:16:58 +0000

Matt,

I found this via @flowingdata tweet, and it is AWESOME.

I notice you’re running WordPress. I’m a WordPress blogger, and would love to be able to create something like this. Any chance you might make it “open source,” or just share it with a WordPress blogger who doesn’t intend to sell it or use it for profit?

If you’d be willing, I’d really like to start with your version and then make some customizations of my own.

Thanks!
Bob

By: mericson

mericson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:04:01 +0000

Aaron: The mysterious gray number is just what you’re looking for: the percent chance of precipitation.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:30:29 +0000

This is great — nice clean layout. got here via @flowingdata tweet. But I’m confused: what is the gray number at the end of each line? I don’t see any explanation of it.

One thing I find handy on weather charts is a % chance of precipitation. That helps me plan my day — umbrella, shoes, etc. Any chance you intend to add this handy piece of info?

Thanks again — this is really great.

By: mericson

mericson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:02:37 +0000

Yep, color is on the to-do list.

By: krees

krees — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:44:51 +0000

Hey,

I like your ideas. Nice layout. However, I would like color in the icons. Sometimes I just glance at the weather and it’s nice to see how much orange there is (for the sun). With your interface it’s hard to tell immediately.