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by O1111OOO 1208 days ago
For a long while, I had been looking for Weather Apps with great UIs. They seemed so hard to find.

Now I have two that look great on the Desktop and easy on the eyes (ie; without the chaos I find on other sites):

https://merrysky.net/ and https://briefsky.app/

Only tested on the Desktop but I'm finding I have to do a bit more work (vs MerrySky) - that is, I have to keep clicking each day.

Usability could be improved if today's weather information bar automatically displayed when accessing the page. Maybe the settings could add a toggle ON option for:

(-) today only

(-) all days

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I'm planning to rewrite https://uw.leftium.com/. Any suggestions?

I'm trying to figure out a good way to add 60-min forecast (precipitation in next hour.)

SI/metric units, please.
One of the reasons for my app was to quickly switch between F/C.

Clicking the large temperature (in landscape mode) toggles between F/C. I think precipitation is always in mm, except for the short text summaries.

...but yes, making the units configurable was already requested and is planned in the rewrite.

Thanks, clicking on the large temperature does indeed — a bit unintuitively — toggle between °F and °C. If you're on a mobile. If you're visiting from a desktop computer, as was my original case, there is no large temperature to click on.
Thanks for the feedback. Will make a note of auto-expand settings.