Do you use MeteoNook?

[TheSillyPuppy]

I started logging weather data on July 18 and found my weather seed within 8 days (I searched through chats with friends to recall which days I had light meteor showers before the 18th). I think I lucked out because I had two days after the 18th where I had a rainbow, so that sped up the process of narrowing down possible weather seeds. On days without any special weather patterns, I found the weather of the day based on 3 data points, recorded on the hour.

I used to like the element of surprise of not knowing when light meteor showers would be. Now that I know exactly when they'll occur, this frees me up from having to pay attention to the sky and change in sounds while playing at night. I'm also looking forward to experiencing my first heavy meteor shower with friends!

 

[Chris]

I attempted to use it but it is far too much effort. Given all I want to know is when I'll have heavy meteor showers it is easier to just boot the game up in the evenings and check.

 

[BetsySundrop]

I use it and love it! Game changer for me. I had no heavy showers, and was horrible at catching light showers as I mostly play in the morning. So no star fragments unless I went to someone else's island. But now that I have found my weather seed, I have been able to get the star fragments and catch light showers. It is accurate to the second the meteors appear. Amazing. It also confirmed that my island has had no heavy meteor showers since launch, but will experience first heavy shower in late August! Can't wait, lol.

A few tips for the meteonook-
Only input data at the top of the hour, it can be a blend of weather later in the hour. And if you are unsure, do not input a data point. I apparently mixed up cloudy/rain clouds and got incorrect seed a couple times. I just went back and deleted all of the unsure points.

Also, I wouldn't recommend using past photos for data points, as they can be misleading. And leave out holiday/special days for weather.

I usually just input the weather when I got on in the morning, 7am, and if I played more than an hour, added the 8am weather point as well (if it was clear what it was). After a few days of that, i got 3 possible seeds. I checked the weather for those three seeds, and only one matched my morning data point the next day, so I figured that was my seed. I verified by playing during the next light meteor shower and sure enough, the meteors appeared on time, to the second! Now I have tons of star fragments.

Fun extra- apparently my island has lots of double rainbows! But I hadn't even seen one! Love the weather app!

 

[frenchip]

I tried to use it, but it's far too much effort for me. I understand that it can be useful, but it's just not for me. I kinda like the surprise of waking up and not knowing what the weather has in store

 

[dino]

i use it a ton mostly its huge desire to make good use of time invested to input data, probably, lmfaooo

it took me literally a WEEK solidly trying to input weather pattern data in combo w a (down to the seconds documented) heavy meteor shower and some light showers, before i finally stripped out the weather AND the shooting star seconds and JUST did shooting stars minutes. everything up to that point was wildly off base and it switched between 5 different seeds every time i would add data. with just the exact star minutes inputed, it is absolutely accurate, from what i've seen.

it's really impressive and fun ! i like knowing that i am not gonna miss a fun double rainbow or something :") and i can finally try and be online for a big thunderstorm. it got rly boring seeing the same weather, so this allows me to specifically be on at certain times to experience new stuff, yay !

 

[GEEBRASS]

I use it and I love it! I had a couple of false positives early on in the process that seemed right for a week or two before proving wrong, but now I'm confident I've found the right seed. My recommendation is to start with ONLY inputting clear-cut special weather events that you have screenshots to back up the time and date for - heavy meteor shower days, rainbows, light meteor showers. Once you've got those definite inputs, start inputting other weather that you have screenshots of on the hour and then check for your seed after every single input. If you ever get "no matches," you've put in something wrong, so if you're fine until a certain input, delete that input and try whatever input you've got next and continue the process until you find the right seed.

 

[Debeers]

I used it to find our main island seed. At the beginning it seems mission impossible but I got lucky to have a light meteor shower day and record the shooting star times, which hugely sped up the process. Also I only input rainy data because those I was absolutely sure. It worth the effort! Now I can check the forecast to plan ahead.

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Now I need to get on it to find the seed for our second island in Southern Hemisphere...

 

[Coco63]

Honestly I've tried to use it but have had no luck so far. For days I religiously documented my weather patterns and input it into Meteonook but it never had enough data. And that's with many inputs per day. After about the 6th day I ended up giving up. I've never had a shooting star announcement, and only sparse showers. I'd love to know when I can expect that sort of thing but coming up empty after a week has drained my enthusiasm to keep going!

Isabelle has never given me a meteor shower announcement either. I believe she only does that on days where you will have a heavy shower.
For the seed I suppose you just have to be lucky with your light showers. Inputting the time that stars occurred was the best thing for figuring out our island’s seed.
Perhaps look for Celeste every day at 7 and if you find her, stay outside and listening for stars for that hour. With the first summer update they added that stars will occur at least once every hour from 7pm-4am on the days that you have stars.
So it shouldn’t be too hard to get some stars as record their time. Celeste will appear on a random day of the week that stars are scheduled for your island. So you could have stars while she’s not there - you just have to listen for them!

 

[tajikey]

Yep. I love it, and can't imagine playing this game without it.

 

[Pintuition]

Isabelle has never given me a meteor shower announcement either. I believe she only does that on days where you will have a heavy shower.
For the seed I suppose you just have to be lucky with your light showers. Inputting the time that stars occurred was the best thing for figuring out our island’s seed.
Perhaps look for Celeste every day at 7 and if you find her, stay outside and listening for stars for that hour. With the first summer update they added that stars will occur at least once every hour from 7pm-4am on the days that you have stars.
So it shouldn’t be too hard to get some stars as record their time. Celeste will appear on a random day of the week that stars are scheduled for your island. So you could have stars while she’s not there - you just have to listen for them!

Yup, I've already been doing all of those things... I know when Celeste comes! I have only ever seen four stars and Celeste has been around maybe twice or three times since starting. Not four showers, just four individual stars. I'll play for hours at night and they're never there, even if I'm listening pointed at the sky the whole time just waiting there! The update hasn't changed the frequency for me. I've tried everything there is online with no luck. I'm not fussing about it anymore, it's not worth it.

 

[ellaelise]

So, this would be clear/fine right?

 

[Coco63]

So, this would be clear/fine right?

I believe so since there are no clouds in sight! (Perfect shooting star weather!)

 

[ellaelise]

I DID IT!!

I just erased all previous data and marked down every time I saw shooting stars tonight. I finally got it!

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I spent a couple weeks gathering info for it, found my seed, used it for meteor showers a few times.. but I haven't used it since. Idk, just don't need star fragments anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's still super cool to know my weather seed!

 

[~Kilza~]

I've used it a bunch since I found my seed. It took a couple of days to get it, where I used photos and chat logs to determine when I had meteor showers/Celeste, then I got lucky with having a light meteor shower so I was able to note the exact times the stars came and plug it in to get my exact seed. It's really nice to know what the weather will be and when stars will come, haha.

 

[Neechan]

It’s a wonderful tool once you finally get that seed number that’s clearly yours, apparently for me, 30 minutes of heavy shooting star data was enough for it to be narrowed down and got my seed (this is after two weeks of no results, and resetting my data twice, I broke down and went back to the day I knew I had a heavy shower)

Knowing that I had 2 heavy showers in April, Isabelle for some ungodly reason, didn’t mention the one on the 8th, and I know I had RS upgraded past a week then...

So, at least I know when my next heavy star fall is (for mine, it’s in September on the 7 and 16th for this year)