[weather app] Display weather alerts received from the API(s) as applicable

Bug #1469923 reported by Victor Thompson
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
Won't Fix
High
James Mulholland
Ubuntu Weather App
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

The weather app has designs for handling weather alerts already, however they won't be implemented for some time. Currently TWC API has alerts in the data returned to the app. OWM seems to have multiple "station ids" that maybe should be looked at to perhaps get better indication of the current conditions.

I really feel that for the first cut of the app in the store we should take any alert and make it displayable as a red warning icon in the app that is clickable to display the warning text in question. This afternoon my current location was under a Thunderstorm Warning and getting such an indication when looking at the weather app seems pretty critical.

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UX Comment:

The Weather App U.I should already communicate severe weather alerts through icons and summary text.

Additionally, once alerts are implemented (as per the spec, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qJ4wzwHsHGNb7GDVjrarMUj4lyro-dLR2_4Xu1b5vQU/edit#slide=id.g4d9d39e74_04) we are likely to find this suggested change somewhat redundant.

Changed in ubuntu-weather-app:
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in ubuntu-weather-app:
milestone: none → 2.0
summary: - [reboot] Display weather alerts received from the API(s) as applicable
+ [weather app] Display weather alerts received from the API(s) as
+ applicable
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → James Mulholland (jamesjosephmulholland)
description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :

I humbly disagree with both points. 1) The reason I filed this bug is because a thunderstorm rolled through my area and the iconography still showed the area as being cloudy (because it was). 2) Alert features _should_ be duplicative, as alerts are supplementary to the features that are in an app, IMO.

Aditya (dtrg21)
Changed in ubuntu-weather-app:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ubuntu-weather-app:
milestone: 2.0 → backlog
Revision history for this message
Bob Harvey (bobharvey) wrote :

I suggest that there are several possible sources of severe weather warnings. Here is one example from the UK:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=map&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1462575600

Then there are flood warnings:
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/

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Bob Harvey (bobharvey) wrote :

Case in point.. The Today scope predicts 'mostly clear' and the 10 day forecast gives 0% chance of precipitation today.. Yet the orange banner mopish right links to a whole bunch of warnings of severe rain, even hail, Anthe east midlands. There might be heavy storms, flash flooding, within a few miles..

I'd kind of like to each seen that on the Today scope.

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