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I'm curious if anyone has a good solution for this, how to accurately display cases where a storm might hit either Monday or Tuesday, say 50% chance each. If you just say there's a 50% chance of rain on both days, it looks like there's a significant chance (I guess 25%) that it will rain both days, when the real likelihood of both days raining might be far lower.


That's one reason https://weather-sense.leftium.com shows hourly forecast data:

- The chance of precipitation line tends to gradually go up and then back down over several hours.

- The expected mm of precipitation bars tend to be more actionable: the chance of precipitation may be high, but if the expected amount is low you are not likely to experience much, if any rain; much less need an umbrella.

- Sample screen shot with precipitation in forecast: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e003badb-4832-430...

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https://openweathermap.org even gives minutely rain forecasts for the next hour.




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