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Re:Acme Weather by imarkphillips on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:04AM (#47099234)
How about reporting on yesterday's weather? Its hard to plan a walk in the forest today if I dont know how much it rained yesterday.
Re:Acme Weather by NoboruWataya on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:51AM (#47099517)
I'm having this problem right now, trying to plan some nice long walks out of the city but it's been raining a lot lately. I'd love some kind of map of flooding/muddy conditions, but I don't think it would be feasible without a massive effort (as whether an area is prone to flooding or turning into a mudbath after rain depends on a lot of factors).
Re:Acme Weather by kristopolous on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:21AM (#47099739)
mentioned this elsewhere, but https://zoom.earth/ handles that ... (I've got nothing to do with them btw... I just think it's good)
Re:Acme Weather by mlrtime on Saturday February 21, 2026 @07:37AM (#47100227)
Weather history sounds like a awesome feature. Sort of like a farmers almanac built into a modern weather app?
Re:Acme Weather by scratchyone on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:16PM (#47105405)
CARROT has this and it’s amazing! You can “time travel” back as far as you want. Absurdly far, even. I can tell you that it was 20 degrees in my town on Jan 1st, 1940.
Re:Acme Weather by tshaddox on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:20PM (#47105439)
Carrot Weather’s most expensive subscriptions include 30-day history.
Re:Acme Weather by bichiliad on Saturday February 21, 2026 @08:31AM (#47100671)
In the app, you can swipe backwards in time and see the reports and data for yesterday.
Re:Acme Weather by Leftium on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:37PM (#47107879)
One of the main features of my weather app is yesterday's weather: https://weather-sense.leftium.com
Re:Acme Weather by vollmarj on Sunday February 22, 2026 @01:05PM (#47113169)
This is exactly what Precip does. Other apps just show the past forecast which can often be wrong. The Precip app uses radar to measure what actually happened so you'll know if that trail is muddy or not. https://precip.ai