the decoder ring
Read the landscape,
not the numbers
The whole forecast is a tiny world, drawn left-to-right from now to 24 hours out. Here is the same world the generator builds — assembled from the very same pieces — with every shape decoded.
the whole scene
One little world, read left to right
The house is now. Time rolls right to tomorrow. The ground is the temperature; everything standing on it is your weather.
← now · the house
the ground is temperature
24 hours from now →
the pieces, decoded
What each shape is telling you
No labels in the landscape, only shapes — the same sprites you see above. Here is what each one means.
The house — you are here
Sits at the far-left pixel and marks the present moment. The smoke from its chimney leans with the atmospheric pressure — rising smoke is high pressure and fair weather, falling smoke is low pressure and storms.
The terrain — temperature
The rolling ground is the temperature curve over the next 24 hours: higher ground is warmer air, valleys are the cold. Everything in the scene stands on this line.
The trees — wind strength & direction
Taller trees mean stronger wind. The species tells you which way it blows from:
- Pine — wind from the North
- Wind-bent tree — wind from the East
- Palm — wind from the South
- Round, leafy tree — wind from the West
The clouds — sky cover
More cloud, more cover. Each one floats above the slice of the day it appears in, so you can watch a thick bank move in across the afternoon.
Sun & moon — daylight
The sun rises from where the day starts; the moon falls where it ends. The gap between the two is the length of the day — a long summer afternoon, or a short winter dusk.
The flowers — time anchors
A blue bloom marks midnight, a yellow one marks noon. They are anchors along the timeline, so you can pin down any hour just by counting from the nearest flower.