Weather-Forecast overusing "Sun with Cloud" icon

[AllesMeins]

Tl/dr: Weatherforecast seems to show the same icon for s wide variety of weather situations while other apps display a more nuanced selection of icons

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or an artistic choice but to me it seems like the weather forecast plug-in is overusing the "Sun with Cloud" icon a bit. I've been using the plug-in for a few months now and it seems like 90% of the time I only see this one icon.

At the first few days I was certain that the plug-in was broken because it always showed the same icon regardless of the weather condition outside ranging from "almost completely sunny" to "completely overcast".

So my question would be: Is this intentional? Take for example those screenshots I took this morning.

What the plug-in showed:

What Breezy (which I use as the weather backend) showed for the same time:

What my window showed 😁

[pacjo]

I think that's fixed on git, but not released. Though I'm not sure. My projects are a mess and constantly starting new ones doesn't help.

In any case, thanks for the info. I'll see if it's possible to make an update in the current state.

[pacjo]

Alright, there weren't that many changes. So there's a new release. Let me know if it fixes the issue.

Though looking at breezy forecast icons will probably be mostly the same. The mapping I use needs to be fixed, but no matter what I choose it always looks bad.

[pacjo]

@AllesMeins did v1.4 fixed the issue?

[AllesMeins]

Thank you for your quick reaction. I've installed the newest version and watching the issue. "Unfortunately" the weather was sunny here today, so I can't say whether the cloudy-conditions are displayed properly at the moment.

[AllesMeins]

Hi, checked it today - unfortunately it didn't change. This morning I had the same situation - breezy showing all cloudy and gray while the plug-in showed only the sun with clouds again.

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[pacjo]

Can you share the cloud cover from breezy?

It's working as expected on mine (though maybe we can have smaller sun with ~90% cloud cover, I'll see what is available)

How about this icon? or any other from: https://gitlab.com/bignutty/google-weather-icons

[AllesMeins]

Ah, I see. Breezy currently reports a cloud cover of about 87-89% which is already displayed with a completely cloudy icons. This seems fitting because in real live those 87% translate to gray sky with patches of lighter gray - at least where I'm living.

So I would go for an icon with maybe multiple clouds and only a tiny bit of sun. Something along the lines of this: https://cdn2.iconfinder.com/data/icons/weather-filled-outline-3/64/weather03-1024.png (of cause only as the general idea and not in this style :-) )

[pacjo]

Ok, I'll try to tweak the mapping, but I just noticed a funny thing.

Turns out Google too has a rather optimistic weather.

(top - mine; bottom - google; right - breezy)