Chaos is confusing

[tykeal]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I find the fact that a current condition of "exceptional" is translated to "chaos" as very confusing. I expect the weather services to provide clear condition indicators. I had to go looking into the source code to figure out why my testing of this card was showing a spinning vortex instead of a exclamation triangle and saying the current condition is chaos when my standard weather card just said exceptional!

Describe the solution you'd like
The weather conditions should be translated as expected and not to cutesy versions

Describe alternatives you've considered
While I like the look of the card, if it is not clear and concise to the end user what is going on then it is not useful and I will need to use a more generic card. I can't be training everyone that may see the card (it would be used in a short term rental unit as well as my home) what things like that mean.

[pkissling]

hey @tykeal,

i definitely see your point.
when i created the card, i didn't consider the exceptional state to occur on a regular basis, hence i didn't put too much effort in finding a suitable icon.

as you might know, i didn't create the icons myself. and since i couldn't find a more suitable icon for the exceptional state, i reached out to the maintainer of the cards @basmilus, hoping he will create icon like the one you suggested.

the text "chaos" i will change right away, for the icon i'd suggest we wait for a response of @basmilus. or do you have a suggestion for another icon to be used in the meantime?

[tykeal]

Thanks for the response :) I was looking through the icons as well and didn't see anything that would be very great at this time. Closest would be the N/A (not-available) since it doesn't match any other known weather condition. As for the exceptional state. At least here in Washington state it's happening a lot through this past summer :( what I end up seeing is it toggles between exceptional and some other more standard state. For instance, there's a wild fire not too far from me right now and it keeps toggling between exceptional, and fog.

[BHSPitMonkey]

For what it's worth, Home Assistant's default icon treatment for the "Exceptional" condition state is a circle with an exclamation point inside (alert-circle-outline). I don't see anything similarly vague in the Meteocons collection (apart perhaps from not-available), but the current default of always showing a hurricane icon is definitely weird (speaking as yet another Washingtonian dealing with a lot of smoky forecasts from the NWS).

[rileytb]

I'd like to add to the voices for changing this. This summer I have seen it more than ever, and I definitely don't live in an area where we'll be seeing hurricanes 😃

I have created an issue over on the weather-icons repo to see if we can get something added on their end so we can update this repo to ingest something that is more expected.

[tykeal]

@rileytb the issue you created is a duplicate of basmilius/weather-icons#21 ;)

[rileytb]

Sorry I missed that already existing issue! I closed mine and will follow that other request.