Post #2054461

2026-04-26 05:09 UTC

here’s an app idea that’s been kicking around the back oh my head for a while and probably won’t see the light of day by my hand: i want a weather app where the at-a-glance view shows the highest and lowest temperatures *in the next 24 hours* rather than in the current midnight-to-midnight span i live in a dry plains climate, and i frequently need to know whether the temperature is swinging because it’s the normal swing for the season, or because a cold front is coming through and i can’t trust the forecast high

Replies (7)

@QuietMisdreavus@squad.town 2026-05-04 14:36

okay yeah, this is exactly what i’m talking about. we’re getting a cold front in denver tomorrow, so i can’t trust the high *or* low temp

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@swelljoe@mas.to 2026-04-26 05:32

@QuietMisdreavus I made my own, just because I hate all the ads in the apps on my Android devices (while the actual on-device part of the app doesn't have ads, but when you want to see hourly weather and daily weather it sends you to an ad maelstrom, literally dozens of ads, even covering the weather charts). Mostly vibe-coded over a weekend, though I already had most of the weather/location code written in another project. Would be easy to tweak. https://github.com/swelljoe/wthr.lol

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@xan@xantronix.social 2026-04-26 05:37

@QuietMisdreavus should be easy enough with access to ECMWF and HRRR model guidance; ECMWF for fixed 12 hour runs, and HRRR for those times where you're still waiting for a new ECMWF run

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@rho@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-26 06:27

@QuietMisdreavus we like weatherline for this

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@mgedmin@floss.social 2026-04-26 19:04

@QuietMisdreavus Flowx for Android graphs the temperature for the next several days (configurable). The shaded areas compare with the same time 24 hours prior, so you can see if it's getting warmer or colder. There's also info about cloud cover, rain/snow, wind speed in the same timeline.

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@chrisipedia@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 22:27

@QuietMisdreavus I was thinking this would be a good feature the other day!

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@pointlessone@status.pointless.one 2026-05-06 07:31

@QuietMisdreavus@squad.town I feel like I’m missing something because what you describe looks very common to me. Here are a few examples. The first is Weathergraph (iOS). This is one of its widgets. It shows all sorts of info for the next 36 hours. Including temp, pressure, humidity, cloud coverage, sunshine, uv, precipitation, and wind. It takes a bit of practice to learn to read all of it but you can learn the important for you bits pretty quickly. You can also customize or hide all bits of information. In the app you can get the same for the next week or two depending on the weather service you choose. The second is Sunby (iOS) widget. It too shows about 24 hours. The app focuses on all sorts of outdoorsy activities. The widget can show a number of different reports. On the screenshot is Everyday Life. It shows temp and precipitation. For example, Skydiving shows wind and cloud coverage, Surfing shows wave height and period, Photography shows sun rise time, sunset, noon, golden hour, and cloud coverage. Etc. I believe both of them are free with in-app purchases. Weathergraph sells more accurate data for some locations. Sunby removes ads, and probably adds data, I don’t remember.

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