Tonight Hubby Tony and I were talking about what time sunset would be, so I opened the
Weather Underground app on my phone to check. Just above the sun and moon information, I saw a feature I had never noticed before called Smart Forecast. After clicking around on the screen I learned that the feature lets you choose the weather conditions you'd prefer for different activities (running, biking, landscape photography, walking, fishing, star gazing, hiking, kite flying, gardening, sailing, surfing, and wildflower photography) and the app will tell you when those conditions are met.
I decided to try making a walking forecast. I chose the acceptable and ideal ranges for the temperature, wind speed, chance of precipitation, air pollution, and the acceptable times for doing the activity. Next I chose one of the seven different color options and hit 'Done'.
The result was an interesting graph:
However, in the next five days the conditions will often be acceptable, but they will never be ideal. I guess I'll have to wait until the temperatures cool off to see if there's an additional notification for that.
Five years ago today:
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I should use apps more there are so many interesting ones for everything these days! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThat's fascinating, I never knew you could do that, but then there's an app for everything, isn't there?
ReplyDeleteAnd, realistically, sometimes acceptable just has to be good enough.
If I waited around for "ideal" nothing would ever get done :-)
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