[HN Gopher] Show HN: Sundial - a new way to look at a weather fo...
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       Show HN: Sundial - a new way to look at a weather forecast
        
       Author : izaidi
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2026-03-31 15:00 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (sundial.page)
 (TXT) w3m dump (sundial.page)
        
       | allears wrote:
       | Nice display, but the forecast doesn't agree with NOAA.
        
         | izaidi wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | Leftium wrote:
           | https://open-meteo.com API is pretty good for weather
           | forecasts, too.
        
       | david1-618 wrote:
       | This is fun to look at.
        
       | DanDeBugger wrote:
       | Very cool and sick. Visually awesome and creative. Though the
       | practicality of this spinning thing I wonder vs just the weather
       | app.
        
       | Finnoid wrote:
       | 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?
        
       | Unai wrote:
       | 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.
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       | 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!
        
       | cousinbryce wrote:
       | 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?
        
       | adammarples wrote:
       | Dates would be nice I got lost
        
       | manishfoodtechs wrote:
       | In one word: WONDERFUL
        
       | 1attice wrote:
       | I love this, thanks! Using it reminds me of iPod, what with the
       | rotary navigation of time
        
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