The brightness of the day can affect your daily activities. You can monitor brightness levels in your area with the AccuLumen Brightness Index™ on the free AccuWeather app.
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00:00I think most people would agree when you look outside in the morning and see how bright the
00:07day is that can affect your mood the types of things that you want to do during the day and
00:11many other factors related to your plans another exclusive feature in the AccuWeather app is the
00:16AccuLumen brightness index which is a more descriptive and better way of characterizing
00:21the brightness of the day and I'm going to talk about that in the free AccuWeather app today
00:25that scale is measured from 1 to 10 where 1 is a gray dark dismal day and 10 is a very bright day
00:34with sunny blue skies no clouds no pollution and a high level of glare at sunrise and sunset and you
00:41can access this AccuLumen brightness index this is a tool again you will find nowhere else other
00:46than AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com the AccuWeather app take a look here at the app in Philadelphia
00:52today and you can see when you bring up the daily forecast the day-by-day forecast the
00:57AccuLumen brightness index is one of the parameters that's over on the right-hand side of the screen
01:02that describes the day so in Philadelphia that's a one dark on Wednesday but take a look over the next
01:09couple of days here we'll go to Thursday AccuLumen brightness index one dark Friday three dull you have
01:16to go all the way till Saturday where we get a five which is a medium on the scale and then eventually
01:21Sunday nine very bright so that gives you a description the best description of the brightness
01:26of the day and again that can affect people's moods what activities they engage in and even what they
01:31buy it can also be a health and safety issue from light triggered migraines and UV exposure to extreme
01:37glare on roadways that can cause traffic accidents our mission at AccuWeather is to save lives protect
01:42property and help people make the best weather impacted decisions and this is another valuable tool
01:47to do that AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings
01:52better protect your family and keep them safer download the free AccuWeather app today