Comment by tshaddox
3 years ago
> In almost all cases the coldest part of the day is right around dawn.
Probably true, and yet the counterexamples are when the temperature forecast is particularly important when I'm choosing what to wear. Any simplification of the temperature forecast into daily lows and highs will fail certain use cases, so I think it's very reasonable to make the daily lows and highs as well- and simply-defined as possible and provide an hourly forecast so that people can also check for the potential edge cases.
Why not both? Keep the normal highs and lows we expect from our weather stations and websites, then display the temperature variance in a view that doesn't require you to drill into the app view clicks / drags.
I don't see any defensible opinion to let the lows be during/before sunrise.
Given that the suns movements are pretty predictable, it seems suboptimal to define counter to something that happens almost every day.
But the most important weather changes to see forecasts for are the ones caused by weather systems moving in which are mostly independent of the time of day. Those are the ones that catch you by surprise wearing the wrong clothes.
Are they? Freeze warnings are pretty important in large parts of the country.