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by presumeaway 4267 days ago
It might overcomplicate it, but the Worst thing, while quite useful, would be more quickly useful if you could see the location of each element.

E.g., show the low ceiling and then the ICAO code for that airport parenthetically, then high winds and another airport code. Quick way to inform intuition about where things are happening.

In my region, I saw several items under Worst, but after scrolling down and looking it over, I realized it was all happening on the other side of a mountain range–nothing to really be concerned about unless I'm going over there, since that stuff is usually well contained.

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I agree. I've thought about how to implement this and it's definitely on my radar.

It's also possible to adjust the range (under the options menu), so that far away stations aren't shown and don't get included in the "worst" calculation.

Which would work really well in some geography. In mine, not so much. I have airports 15nm away that are meteorologically less relevant than some that are 50nm away.
Agree completely. I was a bit confused by worst, and then frustrated that I couldn't find location.