Weather.com vs. SimpleWeather

Posted on June 17, 2007

weather.com warning, originally uploaded by sea_bass.


weather.com, originally uploaded by sea_bass.

Above is the current information for Brunswick, ME according to weather.com. Beyond the utter crappiness that defines the weather.com layout, design philosophy, ad-inundation, they actually get some stuff right: weather warnings.

A new startup, SimpleWeather.com , gets it mostly right. However, ignoring weather warnings is something they get dead wrong. In fact, I’d say it’s the most important feature in a weather site — people need some warning about when the weather is going to be crap. Here’s the Brunswick, ME data:


simple weather, originally uploaded by sea_bass.

According to this forecast, the weather outside is peachy. As I hear the half-inch hail smoothing out the Searles rooftop , I disagree.

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