Weather or not: Minutely can tell you if you'll need a sweater
In San Francisco, it is often said that if you don’t like the weather, just walk a few blocks. Due to a marine layer and some incredibly varied topography, the temperatures here can vary remarkably within the length of a square mile, making it hard to know if you should bring an umbrella, or sunglasses. (So many people opt for both, which is…somewhat ridiculous to witness firsthand.)
Minutely's home screen provides plenty of data at a glance.
If you’d rather not haul a sweater and sunscreen around with you on the daily, then we've got good news. Monday marks the launch of Minutely, a weather map that features an up-to-the-minute 3D radar of the microclimate happenings in your ‘hood.
Created by Ourcast, Inc., which also produces the Ourcast weather app, Minutely is a silver lining for weather aficionados looking for the next big thing. Just recently approved by Apple, Minutely combines forecast data with crowdsourced corrections, displayed via real-time 3D images.
To drive this cool 3D radar display, Minutely actually uses a video game development engine, the Unity engine. Much like popular real-time traffic app Waze, Minutely uses crowdsourced data to give down-to-the-minute details on weather for a two-hour period.
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