Weather Girl

天気ガール：私たちの自家製Raindexとハイパー、リアルタイムの天気予報。

Superbly accurate and beautifully simple.

Key features:

→ Raindex graph that shows exactly when it's going to start/stop raining/snowing; and how much rain/snow (instead of 'percent chance of rain' which makes no sense to us)

→ NFL, MLB, NASCAR and College stadiums pre-installed for easy access to the weather for all of us sports and daily fantasy sports nerds

→ Get weather by typing in a location name (stadium, arena, attraction, grocery store, etc)

→ Pan and zoom animated for US, Canada, Australia (UK is non-animated at the moment)

→ Beautiful backgrounds that reflect the current weather

→ Slick animations on the Hourly and Daily cards

→ Celsius option for our British and Canadian friends

→ Official Weather Alerts from NWS

→ Store as many favorite locations as you'd like for quick access

→ Expand hour and day cards to see Feels Like Temp, Wind, Humidity, Cloud Cover, etc

→ (Optional) Daily Weather Report notification at your preferred time

→ International weather - can take her with you anywhere!

→ NEW: UV Index

→ NEW: Snowdex - Raindex built for Snow!

We have lots of cool things in the works and are open to suggestions/requests. Catch us on Twitter, Facebook, or via email. Make sure to read the "What's New" with each release, we try to make them detailed and helpful so you discover new features.

The story:

We grew tired of unreliable forecasts that weren't even relevant to where we were standing, so we set out to create a forecast that we could use for ourselves.

We wanted to know for sure if it was going to rain at the stadiums for our fantasy sports teams. Or when the surprise summer rain shower is going to end, so we can walk out of the grocery store with our chicken wings and beer, umbrellaless.

We solved this with hyperlocal forecasts (down to your exact street address using GPS instead of a useless city-level view that you see on TV) and tossed out the idea of a 'percent chance of rain' and just tell you how MUCH it's going to rain/snow (what we call Raindex). Pleasant bird bath drizzle or a day-ruining torrential downpour? Big difference!

What's with the name "Weather Girl"? Well, we had a totally different idea originally, then when our code actually worked, we just went with the actual forecasting thing. We still may do something with the 'girl' idea, but for now, isn't she just lovely to look at?