D24483: [Weather data engine] Handle windy conditions in NOAA backend

Wed Oct 9 15:54:53 BST 2019

kossebau added a comment.

  In D24483#544189 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D24483#544189>, @ngraham wrote:

  > Where I live (in the desert), we often have days that are very windy with no clouds or rain, especially in the springtime. On such days, the data engine always falls back to `IonInterface::NotAvailable`, which is not accurate; a forecast //is// available, but we're not handling it.

  Not disputing that this should be handled.

  > Since this new condition is at the end of the conditional, it won't be triggered unless it really is windy with no other conditions.

  Yes, still curious what this general condition description implies for the other conditions, as it also might affect the icon to be done, so what is iconic for "weather-wind".

  Someone might do an icon showing fast-moving clouds, which would then not be matching the windy days as you described.

  > I agree that the proposed icon is not very good. I would be okay with delaying this until we have a real `weather-wind` icon if you would prefer.

  Yes, I would first like to see a narrowing definition what the weather-wind icon should be about, as people living in different climatic zones might have totally diferent associations. I would have never thought about wind in deserts :)

  So seems "wind" here could be meant as: moving airmasses also near ground, otherwise usual weather conditions in the given area/time of year, thus not mentioned?

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