Remove the reporting of weather

by **kentsmith9** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:23 pm

I have never experienced a problem with weather reports and I can see their usefulness. The devs should spend time on needed features unless the need screen or app space.

by **Boschett** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:24 pm

We really don't need to report it's raining. For the most part it is raining long before I get to the point where the report was made. More is not always better.

by **Borgholio** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:12 am

thefoxbox wrote:
par129 wrote:Appears “Weather” is one of those emotional topics (got to love it). My list was just a conversional starter. Daknife – yes, these are the same and are better covered by “High Cross-Wind”. So here is my updated all inclusive prioritize list. What did I miss?
Dense Fog
High Cross-Wind
Downpour, Rain
Road Flooded
Snow/Hail
Black Ice

This would be an amazing set of Weather options.

Necro much?

by **foxfoxfoxfoxfox** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:38 pm

par129 wrote:Appears “Weather” is one of those emotional topics (got to love it). My list was just a conversional starter. Daknife – yes, these are the same and are better covered by “High Cross-Wind”. So here is my updated all inclusive prioritize list. What did I miss?
Dense Fog
High Cross-Wind
Downpour, Rain
Road Flooded
Snow/Hail
Black Ice

This would be an amazing set of Weather options.

by **Daknife** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:39 am

As to the original complaint. Last Friday I had the opportunity to make a Rain report. It was a partly cloudy day, I came around a mountain point and into a down pour resulting in a rapid drop in traffic speeds from near 80 to around 65. I couldn't see that it was raining until I was into the rain. Reporting Rain has a very legitimate use. Maybe not in the Pacific Northwest, but in other areas it most certainly does.

p.s. I like the High cross winds option. With the mountains, Twisters are very rare, Hurricanes don't happen here and just mean we get badly needed rain when one floats around near the gulf of California. But we do have a phenomena call east winds where we get a high pressure to the east and a low pressure to the west and Hurricane speed winds come rushing down the canyons into the valley. These are a mostly spring time occurrence but will often result in multiple Big-rigs getting blown over as they try to traverse I-15 north or southward. So a very good thing to report when they are going on.

by **kentsmith9** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:18 am

AlanOfTheBerg wrote:
pihentagy wrote:I also would like to report cross-wind. Any progress on that?

I think the current "tornado" and "hurricane" types could be replaced by a more generic "high winds" option.

I agree, but I can just see the local Wazers on their client app see the alert of "High Winds" ahead and suddenly an F-5 tornado is tossing cows and mobile homes toward them.

by **AlanOfTheBerg** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 4:07 pm

pihentagy wrote:I also would like to report cross-wind. Any progress on that?

I think the current "tornado" and "hurricane" types could be replaced by a more generic "high winds" option.

by **pihentagy** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 2:33 pm

I also would like to report cross-wind. Any progress on that?

by **par129** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:29 pm

So what does everybody think?

by **par129** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 2:23 pm

Appears “Weather” is one of those emotional topics (got to love it). My list was just a conversional starter. Daknife – yes, these are the same and are better covered by “High Cross-Wind”. So here is my updated all inclusive prioritize list. What did I miss?