A day into the site being live, I’ve been noticing a lot of potentially mistaken submissions for Seattle. While I’d like to wish people were interesting in guessing what the weather will be like in my home city, I know that it’s actually a problem on our end. There is some detection work that goes on to try to guess where people are visiting the site from, but if it can’t tell where you are from, it defaults to Seattle. The problem is that the detection is rudimentary, and has trouble with corporate firewalls.

For one, if you are registered, you can edit your preferences and set a default location that it will remember where you are whenever you login or move around the site. I will also be working on improving the detection system, so that it should makes things much better for those who just want to come to the site while at work and not have to do too much.

Another point that has come up repeatedly is the desire for seeing the weather in Celsius rather than Fahrenheit. Well, that too is a privilege of membership right now. If you are a registered user, you can change it to whatever you prefer. Not only can you change it to Celsius, but if you wanted to see and predict the weather in Kelvin or Delisle or the Newton scale, there’s nothing stopping you. Just don’t be shocked when it says it’s 280° out.