Today scope needs alternative weather source - weather.com is useless

[Matthew Kibble]

Yr.no weather is more accurate, looks better and would be. a nice option within the today scope.

Thanks

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Is there evidence that the weather app provides more accurate information than The Weather Channel (weather.com)?

Regarding how it appears, even if the weather app were the source used in Today scope, the design/layout would probably not changed. If you think that the design of the weather information in the Today scope needs a rethink, please add the Ubuntu UX project as a task to this bug and explain the position.

Thanks

[Matthew Kibble (matthew-a-kibble)]

Not evidence no, but give people choice. It's part of why I like Ubuntu -
being able to pick what I like rather than being fixed to what a developer
favours.

Regards
Matt
On 9 Feb 2016 8:41 p.m., "Kyle Nitzsche" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Is there evidence that the weather app provides more accurate
> information than The Weather Channel (weather.com)?
>
> Regarding how it appears, even if the weather app were the source used
> in Today scope, the design/layout would probably not changed. If you
> think that the design of the weather information in the Today scope
> needs a rethink, please add the Ubuntu UX project as a task to this bug
> and explain the position.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
> ** Changed in: today-scope
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> Today scope needs alternative weather source - weather.com is useless
>
> Status in Today Scope:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Yr.no weather is more accurate, looks better and would be. a nice
> option within the today scope.
>
> Thanks
>
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[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Hi Matthew,

For this to be implemented, three things would need to happen:
1) Ubuntu Design would probably need to OK it and provide some clarity on what the default behavior and design is. What can be done with the current approach is that by default, both weather sources would display and the user could disable either (or both) in Today settings. If you'd like to pursue this, please add a task to this bug for Ubuntu UX.
2) The weather app folks would need to write a child scope that can feed the weather data to the Today scope under an aggreed to aggregation keyword [1].
3) Today scope would need to add aggregation of that keyword.

Of these points, 3) is the easiest (which happens to be what I would probably be responsible to implement ;)

Cheers

[Bob Harvey (bobharvey)]

I would nominate wunderground as a good source, and the UK met office

[Bob Harvey (bobharvey)]

Weather.com have fixed up the problem with our 10day forecast button, so that at least
https://weather.com/weather/10day/l/52.77,-0.39
Is no longer 404.

But even with Celsius selected in their settings the temperatures are obstinately in Farenheit.

Yesterday's forecast of cloud was at variance with all other forecasters, and at the end of the day wrong. This morning dawned misty, which they failed to predict.. Yesterday's thunderstorms in Germany, Austria and Italy had not been predicted.