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Weather Girl 1.1

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"Superbly accurate and beautifully simple."

The story:

We grew tired of unreliable forecasts that weren't even relevant to where we were standing, so we set out to create a forecast that we could use for ourselves.

We wanted to know for sure if it was going to rain at the stadiums for our fantasy sports teams. My quarterback pick reduced to a zero because of some bad weather? No thanks.
We wanted to know for sure when we could walk out of the grocery store with our chicken wings and beer and not get rained on. Soggy chicken? Not cool.

We solved this with hyperlocal forecasts (down to your exact street address using GPS instead of a useless city-level view that you see on TV) and tossed out the idea of a 'percent chance of rain' and just tell you how MUCH it's going to rain/snow. Pleasant bird bath drizzle or a day-ruining torrential downpour? Big difference!

Key features:
* Raindex graph that shows exactly when it's going to start/stop raining
* Graphs that show volume of rain instead of 'percent chance'
* Get weather by typing in a location name (stadium, arena, attraction, grocery store, etc)
* Beautiful backgrounds that reflect the current weather
* Slick animations on the Hourly and Daily cards

This is our initial release. We have lots of cool things in the works and are open to suggestions/requests. Catch us on Twitter, Facebook, or via email to drop us a note.

NOTE: US and Canada locations for now. Fahrenheit only, at the moment, because, quite frankly we're American and have no idea what that other measurement system is.

What's with the name "Weather Girl"? Well, we had a totally different idea originally, then when our code actually worked, we just went with the actual forecasting thing. We still may do something with the 'girl' idea, but for now, isn't she just lovely to look at?

Recent changes:
* Menu: Fancy new styling and hundreds of sports stadiums added at the suggestion of the fine folks over at StreakChat.

* If you have Location/GPS disabled because you’re on the lam, we send you to your Location Settings to enable it. Go on and share it with us, we won’t tell anybody.

* Our address looker upper is more accurate now. For some, while the forecast was for exactly where they were standing (okay..sitting), the address displayed was occasionally off by a few streets. ¯_(⊙︿⊙)_/¯