Weather Wheel

Here is how a weather app normally works. You open it, and it hands you a list. Monday, 71. Tuesday, 68. Wednesday, 70. It is the visual equivalent of a man in a beige suit reading you a spreadsheet, and somewhere around Thursday your eyes wander off to look at something more interesting, such as a moth. Weather Wheel takes the exact same National Weather Service forecast and bends it into a circle. Today sits at the top, where noon lives on a clock. The week runs clockwise. Every slice shows you the sky, the high and the low, the chance of rain and the wind, all at once, in a shape that does not rearrange itself overnight. Wednesday is always in the same place, much like your car keys, except that Wednesday is actually there. WHY A CIRCLE Because a week is a circle. It comes back around. It has been doing this reliably for centuries. Also because the human eye is superb at reading…