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I still have snow outside my window!
If you're a New Yorker the answer should always be "No".
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Grandparent is not talking about the weather.
OTOH, if you are an upstate New Yorker, the answer is going to be "Yes" far more than you would expect.
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You should consider a geo-ip lookup for an initial location recommendation, even if its not perfect.
If we are going to ask for geo-ip features, it could also switch between °F and °C accordingly.
you're running in debug mode. and apparently umlauts (äöü etc) break your site.
Perfectly useless. I hope you didn't spend too much time or money on this.
Relax, it was for fun
Store my location in a cookie or local storage -- I'll just check the page every day before I head out the door.
Just bookmark it after searching.
Good twist to a weather app. Since ever tutorial that teaches you how to code wants you to make one.
I wrote a similar\silly binary weather service (using the OpenWeather api) at http://taps.af

"Taps aff" is a Scottish way to talk about taking your shirt off on warm (read: >20C) days. I've also seen drunk people in some pubs shout "TAPS AFF, LADS!!" and a bunch of their drunk pals took their tshirts off and necked shots of tequila. Scotland is weird :-/

Oh and "Aye" means "yes", "Naw" means "no"

edit: awww it's down, sorry

Your location system does not seem to work in the US.

This website: http://thefuckshouldiwear.com/ Shows correctly my location (Albany, NY).

Your website does not find my location and when I manually write Albany, NY in the bottom, it doesn't work either!

temperature in F. As we say in Europe: 'null points'
We'd like to lead the Series A round please. We think the integration opportunities with our existing product are endless!

Sincerely, the Yo app investors

Hey, you left debug mode on - noticed it as I tried it with my city (Vác), which raised a UnicodeEncodeError.
Yep, Montréal blows up with a unicode error.
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This reminds me of the "weather rock" that often appears in rustic campsites.

You remember it, don't you? If the rock is wet, there's rain. If it's swinging, there's wind. If you can barely see it, there's fog. If it's smoking, lightning strike. If it's gone, tornado. If it comes back, duck!

46°F in the midwest is a no? :P
As newyorkersays, this would be much more interesting (i.e. almost verging on moderately) if it wasn't looking up weather alone, but triangulating for local fashion.

Distinctly interesting if it was backed by image processing and machine learning based on public pictures taken in the local, e.g. weighted for probability picture was taken by a local or tourist; season; year...

As newyorkersays, this would be much more interesting (i.e. almost verging on moderately) if it wasn't looking up weather alone, but triangulating for local fashion.

Distinctly interesting if it was backed by image processing and machine learning based on public pictures taken in the local, e.g. weighted for probability picture was taken by a local or tourist; season; year...

Would be interesting to use answers based on relative temperatures rather than absolute measures.

It may be be a shorts day in NY if its 60F but not in FL.

So where's your weather data coming from? Because it says that it's 61˚ here (actual temperature: 31˚F), and a quick survey of online weather services all show the correct figure.
"Does this place exist?"

Seriously? I put in the capital of a G7 nation and I get "does this place exist?"

I mean, I know this is a joke of site, but that's so lazy it hurts.

That's weird. I thought you may have been misspelling the city name but I get a temperature even if I mash on my keyboard.
I put in "Canada" with nothing else, and even still got an answer back.
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It would be helpful if we could get the temperature in Celsius.
I have a quick bug to report. The location search has some flaws and appears to match the first city it finds regardless of any state added. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that the location string is returned to the user exactly how it is entered, so the bug is not immediately evident.

One example, "Portland", "Portland, ME", "Portland, Maine", and "Portland, Fake State" all return the weather for Portland, Oregon.

Came here to report this for towns in New York and Connecticut with duplicate names. It returned 59* when we are in the middle of a snow storm
- "Can I Wear Shorts Today?"

- "Maybe."

Gee, thanks.