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Comment by dendrite9

3 years ago

I like that chart, though I wish there would be some uncertainty in the lines further out. Sometimes I want a sense of the trends, it isn't like I plan 10 days out based on precip numbers. Though a range would give me a direction to lean. Coordinating with friends who tell me about a chance of rain in a week as a reason to alter plans is frustrating.

It looks like the yr.no chart view that I've used on my phone for years. I appreciate having the pressure, precip, temp on separate but aligned charts to avoid too much density.

Weather representation is hard though. I care about different things at different times of year. In the winter: temp, freezing line, precip, wind speed/direction, and jet stream postion in 4-12 hour increments.

In the summer: temp, cloud cover, thunderstorm chance, precip on a 12 hour tto daily level. But I care about wind speed and direction on a hourly level for water activities.

In both cases I like an easy way to see the radar/satellite images and sometimes the model trends so I can see where precip or cloud cover is more or less.