here’s an app idea that’s been kicking around the back oh my head for a while and probably won’t see the light of day by my hand:
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here’s an app idea that’s been kicking around the back oh my head for a while and probably won’t see the light of day by my hand:
i want a weather app where the at-a-glance view shows the highest and lowest temperatures *in the next 24 hours* rather than in the current midnight-to-midnight span
i live in a dry plains climate, and i frequently need to know whether the temperature is swinging because it’s the normal swing for the season, or because a cold front is coming through and i can’t trust the forecast high
@QuietMisdreavus I made my own, just because I hate all the ads in the apps on my Android devices (while the actual on-device part of the app doesn't have ads, but when you want to see hourly weather and daily weather it sends you to an ad maelstrom, literally dozens of ads, even covering the weather charts). Mostly vibe-coded over a weekend, though I already had most of the weather/location code written in another project. Would be easy to tweak. https://github.com/swelljoe/wthr.lol
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here’s an app idea that’s been kicking around the back oh my head for a while and probably won’t see the light of day by my hand:
i want a weather app where the at-a-glance view shows the highest and lowest temperatures *in the next 24 hours* rather than in the current midnight-to-midnight span
i live in a dry plains climate, and i frequently need to know whether the temperature is swinging because it’s the normal swing for the season, or because a cold front is coming through and i can’t trust the forecast high
@QuietMisdreavus should be easy enough with access to ECMWF and HRRR model guidance; ECMWF for fixed 12 hour runs, and HRRR for those times where you're still waiting for a new ECMWF run
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here’s an app idea that’s been kicking around the back oh my head for a while and probably won’t see the light of day by my hand:
i want a weather app where the at-a-glance view shows the highest and lowest temperatures *in the next 24 hours* rather than in the current midnight-to-midnight span
i live in a dry plains climate, and i frequently need to know whether the temperature is swinging because it’s the normal swing for the season, or because a cold front is coming through and i can’t trust the forecast high
@QuietMisdreavus we like weatherline for this
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@QuietMisdreavus we like weatherline for this
@rho looks like it’s called Weather Strip now? this looks really cool, i wish it had a watch app
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here’s an app idea that’s been kicking around the back oh my head for a while and probably won’t see the light of day by my hand:
i want a weather app where the at-a-glance view shows the highest and lowest temperatures *in the next 24 hours* rather than in the current midnight-to-midnight span
i live in a dry plains climate, and i frequently need to know whether the temperature is swinging because it’s the normal swing for the season, or because a cold front is coming through and i can’t trust the forecast high
@QuietMisdreavus Flowx for Android graphs the temperature for the next several days (configurable). The shaded areas compare with the same time 24 hours prior, so you can see if it's getting warmer or colder. There's also info about cloud cover, rain/snow, wind speed in the same timeline.
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here’s an app idea that’s been kicking around the back oh my head for a while and probably won’t see the light of day by my hand:
i want a weather app where the at-a-glance view shows the highest and lowest temperatures *in the next 24 hours* rather than in the current midnight-to-midnight span
i live in a dry plains climate, and i frequently need to know whether the temperature is swinging because it’s the normal swing for the season, or because a cold front is coming through and i can’t trust the forecast high
okay yeah, this is exactly what i’m talking about. we’re getting a cold front in denver tomorrow, so i can’t trust the high *or* low temp
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okay yeah, this is exactly what i’m talking about. we’re getting a cold front in denver tomorrow, so i can’t trust the high *or* low temp
@QuietMisdreavus fyi it seems weather strip shows only the top end of precipitation estimates, so last night it was saying 8-9-10" of snow increasing every hour I looked
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okay yeah, this is exactly what i’m talking about. we’re getting a cold front in denver tomorrow, so i can’t trust the high *or* low temp
remembered that i tried to write a Shortcut to do this a while back, so i cleaned that up so i could demo it
and it really demonstrates the usefulness of this framing on a “cold front day”. the weather app claims the high temp is 48°F, but that happened at midnight! my shortcut that just scans the hourly forecast is much more useful because it will show me what it’s actually going to be like today
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remembered that i tried to write a Shortcut to do this a while back, so i cleaned that up so i could demo it
and it really demonstrates the usefulness of this framing on a “cold front day”. the weather app claims the high temp is 48°F, but that happened at midnight! my shortcut that just scans the hourly forecast is much more useful because it will show me what it’s actually going to be like today
okay i kept poking around because i realized i could make it more concise without losing any information, and i really like this version
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okay i kept poking around because i realized i could make it more concise without losing any information, and i really like this version
here's the share link to the Apple Shortcuts app if you want to load this yourself https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7590f3ff5cf84f99a47286a478d53ed8
this will make Shortcuts request location permission because this shortcut requests weather for your current location
internationalization note: this currently explicitly pulls "City, State" from the fetched location, and i have no idea how that works in countries where “State" doesn't make sense as a subdivision. you might get something weird like county, or you might just get "City, " with trailing comma-space
️ your mileage may vary -
here's the share link to the Apple Shortcuts app if you want to load this yourself https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7590f3ff5cf84f99a47286a478d53ed8
this will make Shortcuts request location permission because this shortcut requests weather for your current location
internationalization note: this currently explicitly pulls "City, State" from the fetched location, and i have no idea how that works in countries where “State" doesn't make sense as a subdivision. you might get something weird like county, or you might just get "City, " with trailing comma-space
️ your mileage may vary@QuietMisdreavus do you happen to know how to con it into civilized metric units?
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@QuietMisdreavus do you happen to know how to con it into civilized metric units?
@kouhai set it in your locale (iOS: Settings > General > Language & Region), it just pulls whatever your device has set
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@kouhai set it in your locale (iOS: Settings > General > Language & Region), it just pulls whatever your device has set
@kouhai i wrote the original version of this shortcut when i read my temps in celsius and it Just Worked back then, lol
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@kouhai i wrote the original version of this shortcut when i read my temps in celsius and it Just Worked back then, lol
@QuietMisdreavus neat!
TIL that the weather and global temperature regionalizations are different
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