Demonstration with tips

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Adam posted on Facebook a video that demonstrates some features of the app. You can check it out here.

Feels like temperature

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We often get questions about the ‘feels like’ temperature on our free app Instant Weather and why it’s lower compared to other popular apps.

To clarify, our app takes several factors into account including humidity, wind, and cloud cover. Most apps only use humidex but that’s likely over-estimating the ‘feels like’, big time.

Eg. Temp: 29c - Humidex..37c... yeah... no.

It does make sense that if you’re used to seeing over-estimated humidex ‘feels like’ temperatures, it may seem odd that ours is a lot closer to the actual temperature.

Realistically though, our ‘feels like’ is likely a lot more inline with reality. 🙂

Hope that makes sense! ❤

- Adam

Blowing spray

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Blowing spray is an interesting forecast especially when you are not near a body of water unless you have a sprinkler going 😉. It really should only come up for locations that are near a body of water. If you see blowing spray in your forecast assume that it will be windy and if you are near a body of water visibility may be reduced due to displaced water droplets. Here is a link to a definition from the American Meteorological Society.

Hamilton Ontario - fixed

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I just received an email from one of our data providers that said they found corrupt raw data that was skewing the temperature result and are working on putting in front-line fixes to mitigate this from happening again in the future. Thank you to all those in Hamilton who let us know about this issue and were patient as we got it addressed. We really appreciate it!

Adam

Forecasts for the current day and day vs night

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If you watch the DAYS forecast for the current day you will notice that the predicted high (the first temperature in the blue line) will start to match the current temperature after “the high” has been reached. This is because the temperature is the forecasted high for the rest of the day and it isn’t going to get any warmer. An exception would be when temperature is increasing overnight.

This is also true for the precipitation for the day. The amount of rain and/or snow that you see for the current day is what to expected for the rest of the day and night combined. It isn’t the total amount for the day.

This also brings up another important point with the app how day and night are defined by the app. Day is sunrise to sunset and night is sunset to sunrise.

Also don’t forget that you can tap any of the days to see an expanded forecast for that particular day.

Teresa

Incorrect data for Hamilton Ontario

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Incorrect current conditions and forecasts for areas of Hamilton Ontario.

Adam has submitted a ticket to one of our data providers. There is definitely something wrong with the data they are providing for some areas of Hamilton.

Entering Hamilton Ontario as a secondary location shows better results than what some people are getting for their follow me location.

Teresa