Hi Patrick, we are working with our data provider to do this – it’s a complicated path to do so but are making progress. Will add your message as part of our case to do this. Cheers 🙂
– WW

Sorry Jet, wasn’t monitoring that particular one but there was a cold front/southerly change that came though on Thursday that would’ve sparked a few downpours. Classic cold/warm mix 🙂
– Phil

Hi Vict, yes basically it rounds it up or down to make it cleaner to view. Also, the percentage of rain that we display is generally the hours of daylight .. so if it’s below 5% it goes to 0%. We’re actually in talks with the data provider right now and one thing we want to do is sharpen up the way we display chance of rain… as sometimes those 7% risks can produce a really heavy downpour. We’re also working with MetService to tie in radar alerting into our alerting app. When the chance of rain is below 10% you can have a shower – but it tends to be very isolated to one part of the city. The fact NZ has no open weather data means that, in NZ, this global data isn’t as sharp as it is in, say, Australia – where open data (that’s data the public fund) can be freely used for the greater good.

Hope that makes sense – that’s why if rain matters to you then the new Rain Trends in our App (or at RuralWeather) are so key. That chance of rain can be the best guide and telling you when a shower is possible, even if it’s only a 3% risk!

– WW

Whatever the forecast says.