Comments on: A Better Weather Page

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.

By: Chrys Wu

Chrys Wu — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:53:12 +0000

Nice work, Matt. Iconbest has a nice set of free weather icons for non-commercial use.

By: Clint

Clint — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:16:24 +0000

Matt,
got here via an @flowingdata tweet (thanks Nathan). And thought I might give you some feedback.

Overall, I like the presentation but some things were initially confusing.
- I wondered why the hourly weather needed to scroll so much. It took me a moment to recognize that you are provided more than the current day’s hourly forecast. I’d recommend better demarcation of the different days (or make the days (today, tomorrow, etc) selectable via a simple nav at the top of the hourly box – or maybe only display the next 12 hours (current + 11) with some sort of advancing mechanism. It might also be worthwhile to highlight the current/next hours.

- the separate sections would benefit from titles (Hourly Forecast, Ten Day Forecast)

- I like context with my weather data. In a perfect world, a sparkline of the last 30 days for each forecast and a maybe a bullet chart with MIN, MAX, MEDIAN, and Actual/Forecasted would help tell me something about the weather…

Not a bad solution for your stated problem. Thanks for sharing!