Briefsky

For a long while, I had been looking for Weather Apps with great UIs. They seemed so hard to find. Now I have two that look great on the Desktop and easy on the eyes (ie; without…

Very cool. Special kudos for the light and informative UI design. One nitpick - with Geolocation option, if it is disabled at the browser level (all fields are greyed out), the…

I've needed a Dark Sky clone for ages! This is great.

I love the UI but it seems to be missing what location it has loaded for? I know it asks for it, it is useful for me to see what location it is reporting on.

Very cool. Special kudos for the light and informative UI design. One nitpick - with Geolocation option, if it is disabled at the browser level (all fields are greyed out), the…

Would be nice to show the location that it's reporting for; geolocation sometimes (for me, often) gets it hilariously wrong.

Would be nice if it automatically uses degrees Celcius instead of Fahrenheit if the location is Europe. Also for visibility and wind speed, km instead of mi.

Nice. A tip: as long as you're asking for position anyway, you might as well make the units default to the units used in that location. 99% of the time that's what we want. Don't…

Seems to be limited to the US only? Plugging in a random location in Canada and I get "Unable to provide data for requested point 45.5451,-78.8739" Which is really disappointing,…

The US government has a public, free API for getting weather data, and it will spit out JSON even. http://api.weather.gov documentation here:…

Would be nice if it automatically uses degrees Celcius instead of Fahrenheit if the location is Europe. Also for visibility and wind speed, km instead of mi.

Nice. A tip: as long as you're asking for position anyway, you might as well make the units default to the units used in that location. 99% of the time that's what we want. Don't…

I considered handling this with some coarse longitude heuristic, but settled on just using the browser's locale for now, so it should default to metric for non-US locales. In the…

Thanks, I'll add it to my list. At some point I was thinking of adding a location search too, just depends on a free & reliable geocoding API.

Yeah, this probably requires some explanation. Currently, briefsky doesn't depend on a geocoding API, so it can't map locations to coordinates or vice-versa. It just uses the…

This (and every other Dark Sky replacement I've tried) is missing one feature that is crucial to me: hour-by-hour barometric pressure forecast. I get frequent migraines and big…

"Chance of precipitation" isn't one of them though, they'll only give you a predicted inches of rainfall. Should I assume that if there's a nonzero amount of rain in the graph…

I miss the dark sky alerts indicating that its about start raining in the next x number of minutes at my location and how long the rain will continue. Was great when I was about…

For a long while, I had been looking for Weather Apps with great UIs. They seemed so hard to find. Now I have two that look great on the Desktop and easy on the eyes (ie; without…

Thanks for the feedback. Will make a note of auto-expand settings.

The US government has a public, free API for getting weather data, and it will spit out JSON even. http://api.weather.gov documentation here:…

Unfortunately, the NWS API is missing machine readable condition codes/icons in the daily and hourly forecast, which is why it isn't available in briefsky. The API has nearly…

CARROT (iOS) has it.

> This (and every other Dark Sky replacement I've tried) is missing one feature that is crucial to me: hour-by-hour barometric pressure forecast. I think Carrot weather also has…

I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure that Windy (windy.com) offers that: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/windy-com-weather-radar/id1161387262

100% - I love https://www.windy.com for this very reason. Their full meteogram gives you a really succinct/concise representation for all the data it's showing every 3h for 5+…

For a web alternative, on https://merrysky.net/ you can expand "More charts" on the graph to see barometric pressure.

For a long while, I had been looking for Weather Apps with great UIs. They seemed so hard to find. Now I have two that look great on the Desktop and easy on the eyes (ie; without…

FYI, the iOS Weather app does have this now. If you click on a day in the 10-day forecast, you get a detail view with hour-by-hour forecast data for many metrics. One of them is…

For any other person who wants more advanced weather, I like meteo-blue's multimodel graphs https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/forecast/multimodel/texas_united-states_4952777…