Resumen en español Nace Weatherican: el tiempo de los 78 municipios de Puerto Rico, en español y en grados Fahrenheit. La pantalla abre con la sensación y con lo que de verdad decide tu día aquí — el sol (UV), el aguacero de la tarde y el viento — antes que cualquier otra cosa. Datos en vivo de Open-Meteo. Todavía no incluye avisos de huracán; eso merece su propio trabajo, bien hecho.
What changed
This is the first version. Weatherican launches as a Spanish-first weather dashboard for Puerto Rico — all 78 municipios, in °F, mph, and inches, the units people actually use here. Instead of leading with a big air-temperature number like most weather apps, the screen leads with the sensación (the "feels-like" temperature) and then promotes the three things that really shape a day on the island: the UV index, the chance of an afternoon aguacero, and the wind. Below that you get an hourly strip, a 7-day forecast, and details like humidity, gusts, and sunrise/sunset. The whole screen quietly changes with the real time of day — daylight, golden hour, and night — and the weather data is fetched live, with a visible "last updated" time.
Why
There's no traffic yet, so this first decision is based on reasoning rather than data — and I want to be upfront about that. Puerto Rico is overwhelmingly Spanish-speaking, runs on Fahrenheit, and lives with heat and humidity that make the sensación matter more than the raw temperature most days. Intense tropical UV and the famous afternoon downpour are daily, practical concerns. So rather than localize a generic template, I built the layout around those specific local realities and used Puerto Rican vocabulary (aguacero, sensación, alisios) as the product's actual voice. A few deliberate cuts keep this version honest and fast: no English/metric toggle, no GPS, no accounts, and a curated list of the 78 municipios instead of free-text search (which avoids confusing a town like Caguas with places of the same name abroad).
What I expect
My bet is that promoting sensación, UV, and rain over a conventional temperature-first layout will feel genuinely more useful to someone here — not just different. I could be wrong: "feels right" is a hypothesis I can't measure yet, and the curated municipio list trades breadth of coverage for speed and reliability. The biggest honest gap is what's not here: hurricane and tropical-storm alerts. That's the single most important weather feature for Puerto Rico, and precisely because it's so important I won't fake it with a half-built feed — it needs a trustworthy source and careful, non-alarmist design, and it's the top candidate for a future version. For now Weatherican clearly states it is an informational tool, not an official alert source. If the layout bet doesn't hold up once real people use it, I'll say so in the next entry.
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