Show HN: Sundial – a new way to look at a weather forecast

(sundial.page)

55 points | by izaidi 2 days ago ago

23 comments

  • Finnoid a day ago ago

    Very neat! I like that I get a better “feel” of the whole day’s weather from the ring than most weather apps.

    But it takes a bit more thinking and interaction to understand how the weather develops. For example, I like to see how the temperature changes during the day and for that, I find a graph illustrates the hourly changes better than just numbers and colors, but the information is obviously available here too. Just requires but more thinking from the user.

    Are you thinking adding other things like humidity and wind? If so, would you try to fit more information to the dial or add some popups or something else?

  • bdbdbdb 14 hours ago ago

    I absolutely love this, it's beautiful. Kudos for the truly original ideas here in the UI. I love to see radial design patterns - everything is boring grids and rows and columns

  • leawi 9 hours ago ago

    I love this! Both creative and practical, in my opinion. Perhaps additional information (humidity, UV levels, etc.) could be optionally added as additional color-coded rings with numbers, like the temperature?

  • Unai a day ago ago

    Pretty cool idea and execution. This is the first weather app I can see myself using instead of whatever my phone or google puts in front of me; but I often need more data, mostly humidity and wind speed and direction. Also rain seems to be a boolean, but precipitation percentages would be much more clear.

    Having both the dial and the more common horizontal table / graph would make it the perfect weather app for me. Maybe those could be integrated into the dial, like wavy rings?

    In any case, nicely done!

  • SkyGuard_Lead 4 hours ago ago

    You nailed it with this! It is all dialed in (pun intended) and all elements display beautifully and in a natural way. Very well done!

  • kseistrup 16 hours ago ago

    I like the design end the concept. I would like to be able to choose 24h times, though – we don't use am/pm around here.

  • world2vec 14 hours ago ago

    Very pretty. Would be cool if the Moon followed the real Moon phases (if the sky is clear enough to see it). For example April 2nd is full moon and the sky is clear so the Moon in your Sundial should be full too.

  • thiscaspar 18 hours ago ago

    Bookmarked, such a refreshing view at the weather.

    For me, this simple version is enough 80% of the time, if i ever need more details i'll find the usual sources.

  • cousinbryce a day ago ago

    This is great. Showing only even hours would be less text, maybe as an option. As I’m looking at it to plan late night activities it shows this mornings forecast where I kind of expect tomorrow’s. Maybe make a continual S curve that can be scrolled by touch? Maybe less elegant, maybe more?

  • hbcondo714 a day ago ago

    Nice! Great use of the mouse's scroll wheel to rotate the dial.

  • as1as 20 hours ago ago

    That's a great design, I don't think the sunset time is accurate, do you have any plans to apply it?

  • PayToExist 9 hours ago ago

    This is beautiful! This would be great as widget or an app. Add 24h time for us non americans ;)

  • tzs a day ago ago

    Interesting. Looks like it is not taking into account DST in the US. The time shown for Seattle and New York for example is the non-DST time.

  • kraftaa 12 hours ago ago

    neat! and very visual, easier to see the weather by time, would love if such widget would be available for the mobile devices.

  • DanDeBugger a day ago ago

    Very cool and sick. Visually awesome and creative. Though the practicality of this spinning thing I wonder vs just the weather app.

  • david1-618 a day ago ago

    This is fun to look at.

  • fanioz a day ago ago

    very nice and immersive

  • 1attice a day ago ago

    I love this, thanks! Using it reminds me of iPod, what with the rotary navigation of time

  • adammarples a day ago ago

    Dates would be nice I got lost

  • allears a day ago ago

    Nice display, but the forecast doesn't agree with NOAA.

    • izaidi a day ago ago

      The data's from Google (via their new WeatherNext 2 model) -- as I understand it they get their raw data from NOAA/NWS but their forecasting model is different. I'll see about using the NWS API for US locations.

  • manishfoodtechs a day ago ago

    In one word: WONDERFUL