Seaside and Elsewhere

Neven Morgan:

So, this would ideally be fixed. And it would make room for a feature I’d really like to see in every weather widget, on the phone or TV or wherever: yesterday’s weather. The point would be to give me some indication of how much cooler/warmer I should expect to feel as compared to yesterday. See, I don’t really know how to judge absolute temperature values. Which coat do I grab at 55º? How about 43º? If, however, I knew that it would be 8º cooler than the previous day, I could act appropriately.

Temperature you can relate to—I like this idea.

It would be even cooler if weather conditions—a combination of temperature, humidity, wind, etc—could be compared with past experiences; perhaps using event data from a personal calendar. Instead of an absolute and abstract temperature reading, you could be presented with a message like: “the weather is like it was on Patrick’s wedding” or “it’s a little warmer than New Year’s Eve.”