<div class="slider-wrap">
  <div class="slider" id="slider">
    <div class="holder">
      <div class="slide" id="slide-0"><span class="temp">74°</span></div>
      <div class="slide" id="slide-1"><span class="temp">64°</span></div>
        <div class="slide" id="slide-2"><span class="temp">82°</span></div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <nav class="slider-nav">
    <a href="#slide-0" class="active">Slide 0</a> 
    <a href="#slide-1">Slide 1</a> 
    <a href="#slide-2">Slide 2</a> 
  </nav>
</div>

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin+Slab:100);

.slider-wrap {
  width: 300px;
  height: 500px;
  margin: 20px auto;
}
.slider {
  overflow-x: scroll;
}
.holder {
  width: 300%;
}
.slide {
  float: left;
  width: 300px;
  height: 500px;
  position: relative;
  background-position: -100px 0;
}
.temp {
  position: absolute;
  color: white;
  font-size: 100px;
  bottom: 15px;
  left: 15px;
  font-family: 'Josefin Slab', serif;
  font-weight: 100;
}
#slide-0 {
  background-image: url(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7347/8731666710_34d07e709e_z.jpg);
}
#slide-1 {
  background-image: url(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7384/8730654121_05bca33388_z.jpg);
}
#slide-2 {
  background-image: url(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7382/8732044638_9337082fc6_z.jpg);
}
.slide:before {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 40%;
  background: linear-gradient(transparent, black);
}
.slider-nav {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 10px 0 0 0;
}
.slider-nav a {
  width: 10px;
  height: 10px;
  display: inline-block;
  background: #ddd;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-indent: -9999px;
  border-radius: 50%;
}
.slider-nav a.active {
  background: #999;
}

var slider = {
  
  // Not sure if keeping element collections like this
  // together is useful or not.
  el: {
    slider: $("#slider"),
    allSlides: $(".slide"),
    sliderNav: $(".slider-nav"),
    allNavButtons: $(".slider-nav > a")
  },
  
  timing: 800,
  slideWidth: 300, // could measure this
 
  // In this simple example, might just move the
  // binding here to the init function
  init: function() {
    this.bindUIEvents();
  },
  
  bindUIEvents: function() {
    // You can either manually scroll...
    this.el.slider.on("scroll", function(event) {
      slider.moveSlidePosition(event);
    });
    // ... or click a thing
    this.el.sliderNav.on("click", "a", function(event) {
      slider.handleNavClick(event, this);
    });
    // What would be cool is if it had touch
    // events where you could swipe but it
    // also kinda snapped into place.
  },
  
  moveSlidePosition: function(event) {
    // Magic Numbers =(
    this.el.allSlides.css({
      "background-position": $(event.target).scrollLeft()/6-100+ "px 0"
    });  
  },
  
  handleNavClick: function(event, el) {
    event.preventDefault();
    var position = $(el).attr("href").split("-").pop();
    
    this.el.slider.animate({
      scrollLeft: position * this.slideWidth
    }, this.timing);
    
    this.changeActiveNav(el);
  },
  
  changeActiveNav: function(el) {
    this.el.allNavButtons.removeClass("active");
    $(el).addClass("active");
  }
  
};

slider.init();

// https://codepen.io/BaylorRae/pen/ImGBC
// Originally added click links, so I ported over and re-wrote