Stormcaster

The problem

A lot of the best weather apps are bought up or merge with bigger companies. Often times this means that the features that users love go bye-bye, or become inaccessible due to increase in price of paid services beyond what a user is comfortable paying. And sometimes they become entirely inaccessible on certain platforms because of transitioning to new platforms (cough, Dark Sky, cough).



The solution

Introducing Stormcaster, a hyperlocal weather app that displays all the data you'll ever need and want on weather, in a clean and understandable format. And for a personal touch, each forecast comes with a message, usually sarcastic in nature, either from the database or through a couple API's, customizable in user settings.



Wireframes

Landing page

Landing Page

Weather views

Weather Views

News

News



ERD

ERD



Known issues

  • Not very responsive.
  • Login form sends bad data.
  • Sometimes returning to front page causes a render issue as coordinates are reset when leaving front page.


Roadmap

  1. Landing page completion.
  • The current weather view will be the default landing page.
  • Site will remember returning visitors and display current weather of last searched location, if logged out.
  1. Login/out features
  • Change site behavior/looks.
  • Login will be modal.
    • Provide alternative means to sign-in.
  1. Seven-day forecast for current location.
  2. Transition effects.
  3. Favorite Locations
  • Save several locations and view current weather for each in a summarized fashion.
  • Can expand for more details.
  1. Climate/Environmental news from NYT.
  2. Implement NASA API
  3. Expand to the stars, get astronomical news from NYT and NASA.