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WeatherSense

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WeatherSense's revamped UI was inspired by MerrySky, which itself was inspired by the OG: DarkSky. Every five years or so, I’ve been rebuilding the same weather web app. It’s interesting to see how it has evolved. What’s stayed the same Displays historical weather data next to forecast Automatically infers your location Simple toggle between between C/F units Unique format for nearby dates. “Su-11” for Su nday (May) 11 th What’s new I started to prefer other weather apps because UltraWeather wasn’t fine-grained enough. In addition, I wanted more data like air quality and dew point. So I added the missing information: More granular data: hourly instead of daily AQI (both EU and US scales) Dew point (and relative humidity) Precipitation amount + probability Sunrise, sunset 28 different weather conditions vs. previous 9 It was interesting to compare the “feels like” temperature with the plain temperature, but I decided it was not that useful, so I dropped it...