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Switch from:

Low chance of Drizzle at 4pm
High chance of Drizzle at 5pm

to:

4PM: Drizzle (5%)
5PM: Drizzle (20%)

Just realised that the forecase api actually does hourly forecasts for 48 hrs, which means that the watchapp currently reads 'Light rain at 9pm', when it means the day after tomorrow.

I suggest only using the next 24hrs.

We currently do an ajax-request inside the watchapp to the Google location api to find the coordinates of the location chosen in the configuration page.

We could simplify the watchapp by moving this lookup to the configuration page itself, using the client-side google APIs.

This library looks like a simple integration option:

http://ubilabs.github.io/geocomplete/

Adding an icons should make it much quicker for users to parse the current weather status.

Icon examples:

Some nice (free) icons here:
http://www.alessioatzeni.com/portfolio/meteocons/

and here:
https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=weather

In my continued effort to streamline the display, I propose removing the word 'rain' from status descriptions i.e.

6PM: Light Rain (50%) -> 6PM: Light (50%)
8PM: Heavy Rain (50%) -> 8PM: Heavy (50%)
10PM Drizzle (40%) -> stays the same

Given that every status relates to rain, the word rain doesn't add anything here and may prevent the information running onto two lines (which I really dislike).

Settings page should be populated with existing settings if there are any.

So far we haven't worked out how to do this.

This avoids you getting alerts about the next morning when it's only 10am

All times are currently in UTC. These need to be changed to the correct timezone for the chosen weather location.

As usual, there's a google API for that:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/timezone/

We like the happy sun icon, but it doesn't accurately represent the weather status.

Restore 'No rain today' text so we can keep the icon.

The forecast API has a helpful 'current' status for when it is raining.

For example, it's raining right now and the app reads:

'Now: Rain (86%)'

and the API 'current' status reads 'Rain for the next hour'. Often it has details on when the current rain will be stopping e.g. 'Rain stopping in 45 mins'. I think this would be a more useful drop-in replacement for the 'Now:' text we currently have (but only if it is currently raining).