How Huecast works
The weather as a picture: one circle, one sky and a few words. Everything on screen is drawn from the forecast for that place and hour. There are no photos and no icons.
01The circle
By day the circle is the sun, and at night it's a ring: the moon. The hotter it gets, the more the sun pulses and glows. Behind thick cloud or fog it dims and goes soft. At night the stars pulse softly. Below −5° a faint ice halo rings the sun or moon, stronger the colder it gets.
02The sky
The background mixes two colours in a diagonal gradient: one for the time of day where you are, one for the temperature.
Below zero the sky turns ice blue: deeper the colder it gets, pale frost blue at 0°. Three things adjust the colours. At night the sky darkens but keeps its colour, so a freezing night is deep blue and a mild one stays warm. Clouds, fog and rain take colour out of the sky, while snow makes it brighter. On very pale skies the text turns dark so it stays readable.
03The weather
The weather is drawn live on top of the sky. Each kind has steps, set by the measured amount in the forecast: heavier rain falls faster and longer, heavier snow has bigger flakes, thicker fog rises higher, and stronger wind adds streaks and slants the rain.
Rain mm per hour
Snow cm per hour
Fog how far you can see
Storm thunder and lightning
Wind km per hour
04The timeline
The bars at the bottom are the next 24 hours. Drag across them (or hover on a computer) and the whole screen changes to that hour.
- Colour: each bar is a small copy of that hour's sky.
- Height: the temperature, from the day's low to its high.
- Rain marks: ticks above the bar, more for heavier rain.
- Snow marks: dots stacked above the bar, more for heavier snow.
- Moon to sun: the night, from sunset (moon) to sunrise (sun).
05Your places
- Search any city. Pin the ones you check often and they appear first.
- Your location: the weather where you are.
- Random: a capital city somewhere in the world, to see another sky.
06Options
Tap the cog at the top right.
- Save as picture: an image of the screen, ready for your photos.
- Save as scene: keeps this exact sky (place, hour, weather) in search under Saved scenes, to open again later.
- Share: a link to this place, with the picture when your phone allows it.
- Pin: keep the place on screen at the top of search.
- °Units: °C or °F.
07Data & privacy
Forecasts come from Open-Meteo. City names come from BigDataCloud and Open-Meteo. Your location is only sent to them to get the forecast. Huecast has no server, no account and no tracking. Pinned places, your °C/°F choice and your last place are saved in this browser only.
08Tips
- °Tap the temperature to switch between °C and °F.
- +Add it to your home screen from your browser's share menu. It works offline with the last forecast.
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