Show HN: Beautiful intuitive weather forecasts that don't rely on numbers/units (weather-sense.leftium.com)

4 points by Leftium 3mo ago ↗ HN

- 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

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

It is not beautiful for me on Mobile

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[dead] rallypi 3mo ago ↗

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Leftium 3mo ago ↗

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])