Comment by tshaddox
3 years ago
It's interesting you say that, because I have been under the impression that weather apps always show daily low temperatures based on the calendar day (midnight-to-midnight). I've always thought they could be improved by showing the overnight low, which you're saying is the case for some weather apps. Which ones are those?
It's also worth noting that the midnight-to-midnight scheme is a lot more well-defined than the alternative we're both advocating. What do you show as the low temperature for today if it's currently 3am and the temperature isn't going to drop until 3am tomorrow? If that temperature drop is displayed as today's low temperature, then I won't be able to discern whether it will get cold during this night (i.e. today between 1am and 7am) or the following night (i.e. between 7pm today and 7am tomorrow). Not to mention that cold systems can move in at any time, and it may be much colder at noon tomorrow than 3am tomorrow, so in many case "overnight low" isn't even what you care about.
Google's weather feature on Android does this :) They don't call it "high" and "low", instead calling it "day" and "night".
What if the low temperature is forecast to be at noon?
It's a good question, and something I was kinda wondering too. I see now it's technically written as:
> Day 58°↑ • Night 48°↓
Maybe the arrows are used to indicate the high and low?
Then you live in Antarctica, it's winter, and you're out of scope.
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