Comments on: Social Weather Forecasts

By: Rocking in Hakata » Social Sakura

Rocking in Hakata » Social Sakura — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:30:31 +0000

[...] Yahoo’s social weather reporting? Well, they’ve adapted it specifically for this spring’s sakura (cherry blossom) [...]

By: Deas

Deas — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:59:11 +0000

True…but this weather voting system is supposed to provide super-accurate
local weather in real time. It's kinda different. Forecasting / reporting…

By: Jonadab

Jonadab — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:44:41 +0000

When I need to know what weather we're *really* going to have, I skip the weather forecast entirely and just ask one of my friends in the community where I went to college, which happens to be about three and a half hours due west of here by car. Whatever they've just had, we'll be getting it about twenty hours later, give or take a couple of hours depending on wind speed. This is a significantly more reliable predictor of our weather than the forecasts you can get on the TV, radio, or internet. Of course, it only gives you one day's notice, so if you need to know about next week, you're fresh out.

By: Deas

Deas — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:59:11 +0000

True…but this weather voting system is supposed to provide super-accurate
local weather in real time. It's kinda different. Forecasting / reporting…

By: Jonadab

Jonadab — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:44:41 +0000

By: Deas

Deas — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:46:14 +0000

I thought people might find it interesting. I imagine that self-policing
will be tried, and if responsible people outnumber fools who are just
goofing off, it'll work. It's like voting comments up and down on other
sites. I guess. Kinda sorta. And hey – you should use those sites as
motivation for pressing on in your studies! You'll be venturing out there in
no time if you keep at it.

By: Chris Gaunt

Chris Gaunt — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:40:22 +0000

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing, Deas. I wonder how they will moderate it in future. I wish I could read Japanese so I could use these interesting mobile sites…

By: Deas

Deas — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:37:27 +0000

Fixed the “Jump to Comments” button. Should work perfectly now. Give it a shot!

By: Deas

Deas — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:30:14 +0000

Ha ha ha. I guess there is enough variation to screw up local results legitimately, let alone screwing them up with pranks. I live on an island, and the weather for my city is often inaccurate for me – it's colder here due to wind, but it never snows. Makes for some weird clothing adjustments. Sigh.

Interesting point about the ordering. And thanks for the heads-up about the comment flaw. I'll see if I can fix that. The regular #comments was replaced with #disqus_thread when I installed this commenting system. So far it's great – just lost emoticons, really. I just need to tweak the theme, I guess. Thanks for stopping by!

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:13:03 +0000

My city gets 6 sunny, 6 rain, and one snow… Mind you, my city does stretch into the mountains quite a bit, so one of the voters might be living in a village at the top of a hill…

Another thing, the ピンポイント天気 combo box is sorted in the wrong order for Kansai. It's Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto, Shiga, Nara, Wakayama, but the usual order is Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara and Wakayama.

(PS: the “Goto comments” at the head doesn't work for me)