I can’t quite put a finger on what the colored slider bars are on the new weather app 10 day forecast. I want to say it has something to do with temperature, air quality, or UV index but I don’t know which one and I’m dying to know! Thanks in advance!
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It’s comparative to the temperature range for that 10-day forecast.
Note that the coldest temperature amongst the 10 days has the slider touching the left; the hottest day to the right.
So the slider just shows that particular day’s range comparative to other days.
Hop that makes a little more sense?
It’s comparative to the temperature range for that 10-day forecast.
Note that the coldest temperature amongst the 10 days has the slider touching the left; the hottest day to the right.
So the slider just shows that particular day’s range comparative to other days.
Hop that makes a little more sense?
The 10 day forecast has a range of temperatures from a low temperature for the 10 days to a high temperature for the 10 days. Each day’s individual temperature range will fit between the low and the high for the 10 days. If a certain day has a temperature forecasted low that matches the 10 day forecasted low the bar will start all the way to the left (matching the lowest temp forecast for the 10 days) and if an individual days forecast range has a high temperature that matches the the high temperature for the 10 day range the bar will end all the way to the right. The length of the bar for each day depends on the range of temperature change for the day. A large temperature range for the day means a longer bar. A day where the temperature range for the day doesn’t fluctuate much will have a short bar. Days that neither match the low for the 10 days nor the high for the 10 days then the bar will start not all the way to the left nor end all the way to the right. The colour of the bars matches the temperature based on the legend provided by the app. Dark blue is for temperatures below 0 Celsius, light blue 0-15 Celsius, green 15-20 Celsius, yellow 20-25, orange 25-30 and red 30 Celsius plus. Makes much more sense to me now that I figured this out!
@tommyo53 The daily morning and afternoon temps still appear. They're in the HOURLY FORECAST box that you see first. It's only when you scroll down to the next box (10-DAY FORECAST) that you see the new color-coded bars that add information in an elegant way.
It would be helpful if Apple provided a key to those 10-DAY FORECAST bars. Something like this:
They give a quick visual indication of how great the difference is between the low and the high temperature each day. On on the current day the white dot shows where the current temperature is within that range.
Blue is colder, green/yellow is warmer. On a day with a wide temperature range, both colors will be on the bar -- blue towards the left (the low for the day) and green/yellow toward the right (the high for the day).
This is the correct explanation. Whether useful or not can be debated. Basically, the highest and lowest temperatures across all the 10 days is the full horizontal scale and the width of the colored portion depicts the temp range for that day in relation with others. It’s trying to tell us relative ranges of temperature fluctuations every day in relation to others.
The colored portion of the line represents the time of the day while the temperature is changing. The parts that aren't shaded represent a steady temperature. Before the color is the temperature to the left after it is the temperature to the right. It's like a line graph. The non colored portion is where the line would be flat and the color is where it it would go up or down. The dot represents where you are at currently. Took me 4 months to figure that out and it shouldn't have.
It’s likely to show the 95% confidence interval of the daily temperature spread. That is, the temperature on that day will stay mostly within the shown range with probability of 95%. Temperatures not covered by the blue segment can occur, but with a smaller probability. The blue segments are useful when they are short, it means that temperatures are predicted to be confined within that small range (span of the segment) during most of the day with high 95% probability.
It's simply a view of the temperature range, and when observing today's temperature, where the current temperature fits in the range.
It is simply the fluctuation in temperature you’ll feel that day. If you have a tiny colored bar that stays toward the low number, it will be the relatively low temp all that day. If you have a long bar that spans the whole range, all temps will eventually be reached gradually for the day. Hope this explains it
It would seem the bar (which is not per se a slider bar) simply shows the temp range for that day. What time of day YOU are viewing the day is shown by the little dot on the bar. You'll note that as the week rolls on in your image, the day's starting temp is higher then lower and therefore the bar starts more orange and farther to the right then to the left depending on the temps going up or down during the week.
i believe it shows the range of temperature, one end of the bar being the daily low the other being the high and the dot being where its at now
The total with of all the bars are the temperature range for the weeks 10-Day high and low.
Each day's colored bar shows its portion of that day within the week.
Maybe this markup will help show what's happening.
Because some days there is a greater (or lesser) difference between the high for the day and the low for that day.
I noticed it starts making sense when you turn the phone sideways. It will appear to you like a graph.
What do the bars mean on the new iPhone Weather app?
