In that small an amount of space you can basically get today's weather which I can see by looking out of the window which generally makes it a bit useless really.
Not saying that I wouldn't like a better notification screen on the iPhone - I really would - just that all weather widgets do to my mind is add a bit of graphical sugar but with no great purpose.
Or am I missing something? Does everyone else live in a bunker?
I guess you just have more faith in the data the weather app on the iPhone throws up.
I find the single day temperature / image to be too much of an average (so 12 degrees and sunny means that it's between 6 degrees and 18 degrees which basically doesn't help me for that sort of decision making).
Maybe that's just where I live and that for others it does provide useful information.
Current temp is the key one, which can vary widely throughout the day, is hard to tell by looking out the window and has the most impact on what you put on before you head out the door :)
Which would be great if it were something resembling the current temp but on all the weather apps I've seen the best you'll get is a weather forecaster's prediction (nothing actual) and the best accuracy is three hours.
Maybe that's just the UK and the US is getting something more accurate but I'm guessing not.
My Android phone's weather widget gives me the current temp, the daily high and low, and a general icon (sun, snow, freezing rain). Here in Massachusetts, it's accurate enough to be useful.
The spatial resolution on the weather data is pretty good; it distinguishes between my town and the next one over, and gives separate forecasts. The forecast is always a little different at home than at work (about 30 miles), but not too bad. Maybe it'd be a problem if I lived in the Bay Area, where the punchline of the "don't like the weather?" joke is not "wait 5 minutes" but "move 5 feet".
all i care about (in chicago) is whether it's going to rain or snow. the temperature or cloud cover don't really matter to me as much. http://goingtorain.com/
For some reason, this is one of my favorite things about my phone! I had already moved to looking at wunderground.com instead of the thermometer on my back porch any time I wanted to know the temperature, and once I got a smartphone, it became the way I always check the weather.
I live somewhere that can be prone to extreme temperatures... looking outside doesn't tell me if it's wickedly cold, fairly cold, or surprisingly comfortable. If it's snowing, I want to know how much is expected and so on.
"where it can be sunny outside, but still need to know if you need to take a jacket to lunch?" - mbreese
I never understood this till I lived in India. I understand your confusion. I do agree with you that weather widgets waste pixels and can be done in a better, more compact way.
Hardly, Scotland in the UK. The phrase four seasons in one day was, I believe, coined about the place - it's why weather apps are rubbish, it's too unpredictable.
In that small an amount of space you can basically get today's weather which I can see by looking out of the window which generally makes it a bit useless really.
Not saying that I wouldn't like a better notification screen on the iPhone - I really would - just that all weather widgets do to my mind is add a bit of graphical sugar but with no great purpose.
Or am I missing something? Does everyone else live in a bunker?