The sky scope always shows current conditions - it reflects the actual time right now, not the hour you are browsing in the table. The sun position, sky colour, and glow intensity are all calculated from the real solar elevation and radiation data for the current moment.
If you are looking at a future or past hour in the forecast table, the sky display does not follow - it stays locked to now by design. It is a live view of the current sky, not a preview of a future one.
Yes. By default the sky scope shows the current moment - the sun position, sky colour, glow intensity, cloud, rain, snow, and haze are all calculated from real forecast data for right now. But you can also travel through the day.
Press the Day cycle play button (▶) on the scope to run a 24-hour time-lapse: SunScope animates the sky and weather smoothly through the next day in about a minute and a half, with a live clock showing the simulated time. Or drag the thumb along the timeline bar beneath the scope to scrub to any instant - the bar shows the day's changing sky colours with sunrise (↑) and sunset (↓) markers at their real times. Press play again, or release, to return to now.
- The large circular visualisation at the top of the page shows the current sky conditions. The sky - colour smoothly interpolates through a full set of elevation-keyed gradients — from deep pre-dawn - navy through golden sunrise, bright midday blue, warm sunset amber, and back to night — with a sun - disc whose glow radius and intensity scale with the actual shortwave radiation at that moment. It - shows the real current time, not the hour you're browsing in the table, and refreshes automatically - alongside the forecast. + The large circular visualisation at the top of the page shows the sky conditions. The sky colour + smoothly interpolates through a full set of elevation-keyed gradients — from deep pre-dawn navy + through golden sunrise, bright midday blue, warm sunset amber, and back to night — with a sun disc + whose glow radius and intensity scale with the shortwave radiation at that moment. It's a live + weather simulation, not just a colour wheel: cloud, rain, snow, and haze are all rendered from the + forecast, so the scope actually looks overcast, wet, or misty when the weather is. By default it + tracks the real current time and refreshes automatically alongside the forecast. +
+ ++ Press the Day cycle play button (▶) on the scope to run a 24-hour time-lapse. + SunScope drives the scope smoothly through the next 24 hours — roughly 15 simulated minutes per + real second, so a full day plays out in about a minute and a half — animating the sky gradients, + the sun's rise and fall, and the evolving weather as cloud rolls in, rain starts, or fog lifts. A + live clock label shows the simulated time as it plays; press again to stop and snap back to now. +
+ ++ Below the scope sits a 24-hour timeline bar. Its background is a gradient built + from the actual per-hour sky colours across the coming day, so the bar itself previews how the sky + will shift from dawn to dusk. Sunrise (↑) and sunset (↓) markers + sit at their real times on the bar, with clock ticks at the quarter points. Grab the thumb and + scrub to any instant to jump the scope — and the "why it feels like this" breakdown — to that + moment, with everything interpolated smoothly between the hourly rows rather than snapping.