Doldrums

Doldrums is a daily weather edition, the weather page of a good regional newspaper, rebuilt as an app. Most weather apps are dashboards: numbers to glance at. Doldrums is something to read. Alongside current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, and live radar, it carries the Forecast Discussion, the National Weather Service forecasters' own written analysis of what the atmosphere is doing in your region, updated several times a day. The actual humans, in their own words. And it keeps an almanac, in the old style: sun and moon signs for the day, planting days, a frost watch for the garden, and now a tide chart for your nearest NOAA station, with the day's high and low water charted and the turn of the tide in plain words. Add the cities you care about. Check the radar. Read the discussion. Leave a field note.