24c WeatherPreview

The four bands are daylight, civil twilight, nautical twilight and night. The orange, azure, and blue dots mark sunrise/sunset, civil dawn/dusk, and nautical dawn/dusk respectively. The yellow dot is solar noon: point the time arrow in the direction of shadows, and the yellow dot will point north*.

White dots indicate 5 minutes, small ticks 15m, larger ticks 30m, and bold ticks 1hr

* in the northern hemisphere. In the southern, point the yellow dot at the sun and the arrow will point north

Denser means more of the sky is covered. The altitude rings are labelled in thousands of feet, so a deck can be read against the ground and the ceiling rather than guessed at.

Above it, snow and ice live; below it, the air is above freezing. It shares the altitude axis with the cloud, so the line and the deck can be read against each other.

Visibility is a distance, not a height: the line runs from 0 to 10 km on its own scale. Lower means haze, fog or a hard horizon; higher means the air is clear. It is not read against the altitude rings.

The line runs from 0 °C at the inside to 40 °C at the outside; a day below zero mirrors back out, and the colour says which side of zero it is. The coldest and warmest values are printed on the line.

Zero is at the inside, twelve at the outside. The line steps through the bands rather than sliding, and the day's peak is printed where it happens.

Rain, snow and ice each have their own colour; the labels print the rate at the peaks, and a bolt marks a thunderstorm where the report carries one. The same dial shows every phase because the weather does.

The orange sock is the mean wind, the darker stripes are the gusts, and the strongest wind of the day is printed where it peaks. North is up, so the sock is also a direction.