[HN Gopher] Why are weather apps still so terrible these days?
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       Why are weather apps still so terrible these days?
        
       Author : kimnamjoon
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-04-10 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | basisword wrote:
       | I found Dark Sky almost 100% accurate in terms of predicting
       | rain. Since Apple added rain predictions I've found it almost
       | 100% accurate too.
        
         | getoffmycase wrote:
         | Really? My Apple rain predictions are nearly 0% accurate. It's
         | more of a "low level cloud" forecast more than anything else
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | https://www.weather.gov/ is all you need
        
         | jbj wrote:
         | https://yr.no works great for northern europe
        
         | acomjean wrote:
         | Well if you are in the US..
         | 
         | but its pretty great.
        
         | tech234a wrote:
         | Yeah it's pretty good though the UI for hourly forecasts could
         | use a bit of a touch up.
        
       | toss1 wrote:
       | On Android, I've found an excellent combination.
       | 
       | Flowx has an extremely innovative display of very fine scaled
       | data from a wide range of US, Canadian, EU and other weather
       | agencies (NOAA GFS, CMC GDPS, ECMHWF HIRES, CMC RDPS, CMC HRDPS,
       | DWD ICON Global, NOAA NAM, NOAA HRR, down to 3km resolution). The
       | UI for manipulating the data display is wonderful.
       | 
       | Foreca has a great at-a-glance current and forecast listing.
       | 
       | Rainy Days has excellent recent-to-current radar display.
       | 
       | No relation with any other than happy customer.
        
       | jbj wrote:
       | there is always a good moment to 'curl wttr.in'
        
       | trillic wrote:
       | I like Windy.com to compare models.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | iamben wrote:
       | https://archive.is/ezISr
        
       | flatiron wrote:
       | Been a fan of https://merrysky.net/ recently
        
         | codespin wrote:
         | I always have a tab open with merrysky. I really like the extra
         | detail they show in the graph of wind/temp/precipitation and
         | the break down of the day.
         | 
         | For Seattle area in particular most weather apps will show the
         | entire week as cloudy and rainy, but there is a lot more to it
         | and merrysky is able to surface that.
        
         | garciansmith wrote:
         | Best I've found as well. The dev was also very kinda and
         | responsive about fixing a (minor) graphical bug I reported.
        
       | nogridbag wrote:
       | I don't mind the stock Android/Pixel weather app, but I have no
       | idea why it requires pixel perfect accuracy to launch it from the
       | stock home screen. And if there's any sort of traffic alert or
       | reminder that displays adjacent to the weather on the home screen
       | it usually takes me 3-5 attempts to launch the weather app. Have
       | the flashlight on? Can't check the weather! It's been like this
       | for as long as I can remember.
        
       | hnburnsy wrote:
       | https://nwsnow.net/ weather app for Android, no ads, no tracking,
       | data straight from NOAA and NWS.
        
         | fuzzylightbulb wrote:
         | Looks nice enough. Why isn't this on the Play Store?
        
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