[HN Gopher] Acme Weather
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Acme Weather
Author : cryptoz
Score : 157 points
Date : 2026-02-21 07:13 UTC (15 hours ago)
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| basicoperation wrote:
| The site doesn't make it clear, but it's not available worldwide.
| The App Store doesn't tell you where exactly it is available, but
| it's not in the UK.
|
| This surprised me seeing as one of the example images shows
| Europe, including the south coast of Britain.
| qkc3p3Jbf4 wrote:
| Looks lovely. I was keen to try this but US and Canada only
| unfortunately.
|
| Also: subscription fatigue is real. Of course I understand that
| fetching weather data isn't free etc. (even though I'm intrigued
| by their homegrown forecast model) but I've already got 10+
| subscriptions on iOS and I'm not sure if I've got the stomach for
| another. Apple's weather app is finally good though since the
| Dark Sky acquisition.
| RebeccaTheDev wrote:
| > _Also: subscription fatigue is real._
|
| This. I just went and cancelled a bunch of vampire
| subscriptions that had accrued in my life (both in and out of
| the Apple ecosystem) and ended up saving somewhere in the range
| of $60 a month.
|
| I get that people have bills to pay and building and
| maintaining software costs money, but when _everyone_ wants
| money from me for every little thing, eventually I have to
| decide who gets what cut from an increasingly limited sized
| pie.
|
| Apps like this that, while beautiful, replicate functionality
| that is "good enough" that I can get for free are the first
| thing to be cut.
| JensenTorp wrote:
| Subscription app in 2026, no thanks.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| Your phone comes with a free weather app. There are thousands
| more free apps for folks who don't mind ads.
|
| Weather requires ongoing costs. It's always going to need to be
| maintained because meteorological models are evolving. Anything
| beyond a viewport will need to track and metabolize those
| changes.
| imiric wrote:
| > Weather requires ongoing costs.
|
| I strongly doubt that this company runs their own weather
| stations or meteorological models. Their only recurring cost
| is API access to the companies that provide weather data, a
| negligible amount of IT infrastructure, and their employees.
| Considering that there are many free weather APIs, and that a
| polished frontend can be built by a single person, what
| exactly are the overheads?
|
| To be fair, I'm not criticizing the subscription model. I
| think it makes sense for software that needs to be
| continually maintained. But a weather app shouldn't have
| large maintenance costs that couldn't be covered by a one-
| time payment. A big reason why companies love the Apple
| ecosystem is because subscriptions have been normalized, and
| users are used to paying them regardless if the model
| actually makes sense for the type of software.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| > _strongly doubt that this company runs their own weather
| stations or meteorological models. Their only recurring
| cost is API access to the companies that provide weather
| data_
|
| No. But I'd suspect a _tabula rasa_ approach to weather-
| particularly given it hasn 't been rolled out globally in
| one go-incorporates satellite data, local measurements, _et
| cetera_.
|
| Again, that may not take constant subscriprtion. But it
| _does_ take constant expert monitoring and awareness.
|
| > _Considering that there are many free weather APIs_
|
| If you're a glorified viewport into these APIs' data, you
| may be able to stick with their most-static data and fire
| and forget. In reality, what those outputs mean change as
| the models and techniques evolve. There are new APIs with
| new data constantly coming out, and they're often adding
| connectors.
|
| > _a weather app shouldn 't have large maintenance costs
| that couldn't be covered by a one-time payment_
|
| The only way I see this working is if the user is
| explicitly aware the app can break at any time if one of
| the APIs change anything, which they often do, and that
| this may not cause any obvious failures, just a decay in
| the app's accuracy or usefulness.
| plantain wrote:
| Good luck getting ECMWF ensemble data for free.
| oheyadam wrote:
| How do you expect them to pay for their costs and service fees?
| One time payments of $1-$10 don't cut it. People aren't paying
| massive one time fees for mobile apps
| ksynwa wrote:
| I only have one Apple devices (an iPad) but from what I seen
| the subscription is popular on it. I wanted to use Infuse, a
| video player, for my Jellyfin server but the lifetime price was
| $100 or a $2/month subscription. Also was interested in Panels,
| a comic book reader, for my Komga server. Panels was more
| reasonably priced ($20 for all updates to the current major
| version) but it also a subscription tier at $1.5/month.
| j45 wrote:
| The internet and software always costs someone.
| Lord_Zero wrote:
| Is there really that much money in making a weather app where you
| can quit your job at apple and do that?
| cryptoz wrote:
| They sold their last weather app to Apple for like, tens of
| millions or something. These aren't some random Apple
| employees.
|
| Also, it seems a common misunderstanding about some weather
| apps: yes, most of them just package free data and steal your
| privacy, but some are really much more than a "weather app".
| Some are attempts at building next-generation weather forecast
| models, which if successful are of course worth billions.
|
| I've spent a lot of time building innovative weather apps, most
| of my career actually. And it's always shocking to me when
| people say I'm wasting time or wasting my life or look at me
| like, "really? You're dedicating your life to weather apps?!"
|
| No dawg, I'm trying to improve short term forecasts to save
| life and property from severe events at scale!
|
| I'm not sure what the Acme end goal is, but surely this isn't
| just a "weather app".
| Galanwe wrote:
| > I'm trying [...] to save life and property from severe
| events at scale
|
| Tell me you work in Silicon Valley without telling me you
| work in silicon Valley.
|
| Sorry but I couldn't resist. There is something in US startup
| mentality where you can't just "create an app and make a
| living", you have to be on a grand mission to save the world.
| That may be normal out there, but for the rest of the world
| it just seems... Get back to earth man :-)
| dan00 wrote:
| It's exactly the kind of words that venture capital wants
| to here.
| 3rodents wrote:
| Sure, most of us are doing nothing to help people and are
| using grandiose language to describe reticulating splines.
| I don't think that applies to good weather apps though, a
| lot of people do die because they are unaware of weather
| events. I would be very unsurprised to learn that any major
| weather app has directly saved lives. The U.S is a very...
| weatherful place.
| altmanaltman wrote:
| People do die due to weather events. But attributing
| their death to bad weather apps is pretty wild.
| 3rodents wrote:
| I didn't say that.
| gregoriol wrote:
| Funniest thing is how they leave the company they sold their
| weather app to... to start another weather app.
| gcanyon wrote:
| The team/person responsible for Woot sold it to Amazon, and
| then launched Meh _the day_ their non-compete ended, along
| with a manifesto explaining how badly they thought Amazon had
| handled Woot.
| malfist wrote:
| Got a link to the manifesto? My kagi-fu isn't finding it
| gcanyon wrote:
| I have no clue where I read it, that was back when
| meh.com launched eleven-ish years ago. I didn't find it
| in a hot minute of searching either. I did find these,
| some of which talk about the circumstances obliquely:
|
| https://www.ecommercefuel.com/woot/
|
| https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/27/woot-reborn-as-meh/
|
| https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/ju
| ly/...
|
| https://meh.com/forum/topics/year-one-meh-stats--
| mediocre-st...
| jwr wrote:
| Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app
| with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others...
|
| "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your
| app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.
| ca6d8815 wrote:
| Try your local weather app. Here in Switzerland the MeteoSwiss
| app is absolutely wonderful, and has all these main features:
| - Uncertainty bands in the forecast (the bands are a better UX
| than more lines imo) - User-supplied reports - Many
| many many different maps (snow / cloud / wind / sunshine / air
| quality / etc) - Alerts (not notifications, but real
| alerts to watch out for something)
|
| Plus many more other features. I found Yr in Norway also good
| (and on the web you also get uncertainty in the 21 day forecast
| https://www.yr.no/en/21-day-
| forecast/1-305409/Norway/Troms/T...).
|
| Local weather services shouldn't be overlooked (and they're
| "free"... save for taxes!).
| mr_mitm wrote:
| WarnWetter for Germany. Costs a symbolic 1 Euro for dumb
| reasons, but I think it's easily worth it.
| k4rli wrote:
| yr.no tends to be most accurate for Scandi+Baltics somehow
| pretty often.
|
| Ventusky has the best app experience in Android with many
| different layers like wind, precipitation, air quality and
| many more. Can only recommend this as well.
| fastasucan wrote:
| Yes! They are much better. Yr has a great API as well.
| sschueller wrote:
| In Switzerland all weather data is now also open and
| accessible via API. You can also use it for commercial
| purposes.
|
| https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/services-and-
| publications/se...
| jwr wrote:
| I actually use (and pay a subscription for) Windy, which is
| local (EU) and has data from a multitude of providers (some
| of which aren't free).
|
| My comment was a critique of a launching approach that I find
| annoying, because I would never dare to launch an app
| ignoring most of the world.
| ratrocket wrote:
| Is that the blue windy or the red windy? I can never keep
| them straight!
| pixelesque wrote:
| Yeah, odd to show an example screenshot with France and Spain
| on the map if it's not available there...
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| BreezyWeather is a pretty good open source option for Android,
| if you are looking. Gives you plenty of options of data
| providers to use.
|
| https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather
| lionkor wrote:
| I'm in Germany and I really enjoy the Norwegian weather app YR,
| it's nice and simple and very clean.
| ho_schi wrote:
| It looks nice. Less nice but very good in Germany is DWD Warn
| Weather:
|
| https://apps.apple.com/de/app/dwd-warnwetter/id986420993?l=e...
|
| Yes. We pay for it with taxes! And again with our money in the
| App Store. But the app success is build upon the lawsuit from
| _WetterOnline_ which is a private company.
|
| https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...
|
| The lawsuit backfired and made the state funded app well known.
| _WetterOnline_ attacked the DWD because the state funded app is
| superior :)
|
| I think in Italy they have some similar app. Would be nice if
| the EU helps us to unify the app. And add offline capabilities,
| bad or no internet happens. The weather radar is offline of
| less use but the forecast still helps.
|
| They release videos for dangerous weather on YouTube. We'll
| know for regular people, in regular cloths, speaking like
| regular Germans. Everyone loves it :)
|
| I like it when important services are provided by the state and
| private companies. Save foundation! In worst case the state is
| always better. In best case they compete and public benefits.
| In this case the private company just sucks. But they made a
| good job in advertising for DWD ^^
|
| PS: If someone would implement a nice weather for Linux (best
| Gtk) based upon DWD public data? _DO IT!_
| Terretta wrote:
| Has EU weather sources per credits (DWD, ECMWF, EUMETSAT --
| roughly what it's doing is graphing multiple models), but if
| you are into weather apps you're likely best off with Carrot
| that (a) lets you design your own UI including matching this
| (more or less), and (b) lets you choose among weather sources
| and flip among them with a tap.
|
| If it's about cute UI and key notifications, try Hello Weather.
| For microcell notifications on anything, Tomorrow weather. For
| much better maps, WeatherMap.
|
| For comparing multiple models, try Windy.app. For coastal
| barrier island use, I have 8 graphed at once, most of them EU
| models.
|
| Very little reason for any weather app beyond Carrot, though
| Apple Weather is surprising evolved from the app of 20 years
| ago, no longer the 4th app to replace after messaging, maps,
| and browser).
|
| Carrot is the only weather app with a vicious weather control
| AI singing an entire Broadway concept album about your
| destruction at you though.
| agluszak wrote:
| Why is that? I know that some US-based news websites choose the
| nuclear option of completely disabling access to EU-based users
| instead of complying with EU laws. But weather app? What
| problem do they have with supporting EU users?
| StopDisinfo910 wrote:
| Why would you pay a subscription for a weather app in the EU
| when national providers are already so good?
|
| I guess they wanted to focus on the US market at first because
| they know there is money to be made there.
| bromuro wrote:
| EU weather apps usually have an horrible UX. This one seems
| pretty cool and I'd pay for it if it would be available. I
| now use the ugly Windy.com app and the weather ios app.
| mlrtime wrote:
| Why not look into it instead of complaining about something you
| have no right to have in the first place?
|
| Maybe the market is too small, maybe it will come with the next
| version, maybe there are EU barriers that prevent
| implementation?
|
| This constant complaining about something that didn't exist 1
| second ago is tiresome.
| bromuro wrote:
| Dark Sky weather app never landed in Europe while it was
| available in US for years. The complaint is legit.
| sixtyj wrote:
| Windy.com - both website and app. It covers the whole world and
| seems that they have very large number of models available.
| esperent wrote:
| Also yr.no app - the Norwegian weather service. Covers the
| whole world, uses a decent selection of models. I go between
| this and windy.
| caseyohara wrote:
| I doubt people would complain this much if they came across a
| weather app that is only supported in the EU or China or India.
| No one would say
|
| _Yet another China-only app with China-only weather, I guess,
| like countless others...
|
| "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your
| app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app
| to._
|
| Build your own EU weather app if you care so much. No one is
| obligated to support their software in the part of the world
| you happen to live.
| WarmWash wrote:
| All Europe has to do is let grind-culture young people become
| billionaires and they'll have all the cool (and necessary)
| software they could imagine.
|
| The US might suck socially, but the other side of that coin is
| that it gets all the cool stuff.
| skadamat wrote:
| My understanding is that they're _just_ starting out with the
| app. Someone posted it to HN prematurely. Dark Sky expanded to
| support global weather and I 'm sure Acme will as will.
| stronglikedan wrote:
| Not available on Android either, so... no big deal. They're
| just starting out. Give them a chance to grow.
| Aldipower wrote:
| I used to use DarkSky for the "history data" for my platform.
| Querying weather for certain points in the past at certain
| locations. DarkSky was great for that until they were bought by
| Apple. Now I am using VisualCrossing for historical data. Hope
| Acme plans to do historical data too. But if it is US only then
| it is a no-go anyway.
| rcarmo wrote:
| I am going to chalk this up as another datapoint in the "Apple
| cannot retain talent" chart. I don't know what the heck they are
| doing, but everyone they've acquired seems to leave as soon as
| they can instead of staying.
| gregoriol wrote:
| I'd love to see some stats on this: people leaving to start
| something new (be it Apple or any other acquiring company)
| might be over-represent because there is not much news about
| people staying in their job
| mattlondon wrote:
| Leave as soon as you can, along with millions and millions in
| cash that you got from the sale? Who wouldn't?! Why would you
| continue working for "the man" when you have FU-money?
| chickensong wrote:
| Should probably quit and sell the same thing again with a
| different chart because FU money isn't enough.
|
| The price is reasonable I guess, but also, you can just get
| weather for free? IDK...
| bonaldi wrote:
| This team really have been thinking about weather a _lot_ , and
| it makes me very curious about what they've created this time.
|
| It's that depth of thought and expertise that feels missing from
| most of the vibe-coded launches we've seen recently. I actually
| wouldn't mind if Acme had vibe coded parts, but I bet they
| didn't.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| > _it makes me very curious about what they've created this
| time_
|
| The rainbow and sunset alerts are really cool ideas. I'm now
| realising that a simple tie-in to astronomical phenomena could
| prompt a useful notificationa around it _e.g._ being worth
| going stargazing that night. I ski-learning that the near-term
| forecasts just changed would help me change my schedule the day
| before versus trying and failing the morning of.
| hypercube33 wrote:
| I'm almost shocked we don't have a large weather model instead
| of a language model. Seems right up the alley.
|
| Also I don't get what happened but I think it was AccuWeather
| or weather underground in the early 2000s where it was to the
| minute accurate and it seems like it's gotten worse since
| everywhere.
| imarkphillips wrote:
| How about reporting on yesterday's weather? Its hard to plan a
| walk in the forest today if I dont know how much it rained
| yesterday.
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| I'm having this problem right now, trying to plan some nice
| long walks out of the city but it's been raining a lot lately.
| I'd love some kind of map of flooding/muddy conditions, but I
| don't think it would be feasible without a massive effort (as
| whether an area is prone to flooding or turning into a mudbath
| after rain depends on a lot of factors).
| kristopolous wrote:
| mentioned this elsewhere, but https://zoom.earth/ handles that
| ... (I've got nothing to do with them btw... I just think it's
| good)
| mlrtime wrote:
| Weather history sounds like a awesome feature. Sort of like a
| farmers almanac built into a modern weather app?
| scratchyone wrote:
| CARROT has this and it's amazing! You can "time travel" back
| as far as you want. Absurdly far, even. I can tell you that
| it was 20 degrees in my town on Jan 1st, 1940.
| tshaddox wrote:
| Carrot Weather's most expensive subscriptions include 30-day
| history.
| bichiliad wrote:
| In the app, you can swipe backwards in time and see the reports
| and data for yesterday.
| mattlondon wrote:
| Interested, but no android app and apparently US only?
|
| Can we update the title?
| imiric wrote:
| How are weather apps still relevant, let alone profitable enough
| to build a company around? This problem has been solved years
| ago. All the app needs to do is hook up to one or more data
| providers, and show some stats and pretty graphs. It's
| essentially a read-only frontend to an API. There are plenty of
| options to choose from on every platform, including not using an
| app at all.
|
| The features this ad promotes all seem like solutions to
| nonexistent problems. "Alternate possible futures" don't give me
| any more confidence in the forecast--it just shows that it's not
| reliable, which everyone should know already. "Community reports"
| just add another layer of uncertainty. How can I trust that
| someone's report is valid or up-to-date, or that it applies to my
| area? Maps are nice and visually interesting, but this is not
| exactly novel. Notifications? No thanks. A weather app "should be
| fun"? _Huge_ no thanks. Privacy and trust? Why do you collect
| _any_ data?? Unbelievable.
| cryptoz wrote:
| > Why do you collect _any_ data??
|
| There are like, billions of internet-connected barometers in
| the world that are not used in weather models. I don't know if
| Acme has any of that in mind, but there is plenty of good
| reason for a weather app to collect data from phones. I know
| @counters may disagree with me, but I believe there are
| opportunities to improve short term forecast accuracy using
| data collected from phones.
|
| Also, pretty much every day, all the apps and all the sites
| will tell me the incorrect _current conditions_ at my location,
| much less the forecast. It's 2026 damnit. Why doesn't my phone
| know what the weather is outside right now?
|
| I haven't got the app yet, but I plan on it (gotta upgrade iOS
| first I think). Acme seems to have a lot of ideas I agree with,
| so, definitely following this.
|
| One more thing. Weather apps have not been "solved". Not even
| close. They all suck, there's billions in untapped opportunity,
| and a stale existing market of bad solutions. People die all
| the time from severe weather. There is so much more work to be
| done in forecast accuracy and communication.
| imiric wrote:
| > I believe there are opportunities to improve short term
| forecast accuracy using data collected from phones.
|
| Alright, fair point. That could be a reasonable use case.
|
| But judging by their advertised "Community reports" feature,
| Acme doesn't seem to be doing this. And even if they did,
| this feature should be opt-in, and their privacy policy
| should only apply for those users.
|
| > Also, pretty much every day, all the apps and all the sites
| will tell me the incorrect current conditions at my location,
| much less the forecast. It's 2026 damnit. Why doesn't my
| phone know what the weather is outside right now?
|
| Have you tried looking out the window? What do you need
| hyper-local and minute-accurate forecasts for? If you need to
| know accurate _current_ conditions get a thermometer and
| barometer. If you want it on your smartphone, then the app
| could show you live readings from your device, without
| sending the data anywhere.
|
| Weather forecasts have always been an inexact science, and
| likely always will be. Our models have gotten better over
| time, and at this point I think that they're good enough. I
| only need to know the general temperature and likelihood of
| certain weather events a few days in advance, at most. If
| there's a chance of rain, I carry an umbrella just in case.
| If it's going to be cold, I pack a jacket.
|
| Highly accurate weather prediction doesn't solve any
| practical problem for the average person. Hyping it up like
| it does only serves as marketing for companies that want to
| build a profitable business around it.
| imiric wrote:
| After thinking more about this, I don't think smartphones
| would even be good sources of ambient data that could
| improve forecasts.
|
| Smartphones are personal computers. They spend most of
| their time in pockets and controlled indoor environments.
| This ambient data is of no use to anyone, which is why
| there's still a market for home weather stations, whose
| sensors are typically placed outside.
| cryptoz wrote:
| The barometer data is for sure noisy, and must be cleaned
| and quality controlled. But that is possible to do, has
| been for 10 years now (there are published papers and
| demo apps that can do it). For one, rate of change of
| atmospheric pressure is pretty much the same inside as
| out, your main challenge for the raw value to be correct
| is user elevation. That can be corrected in quality
| control as well.
|
| Plenty of work has been done on this front, and it can be
| demonstrated that you can assimilate the smartphone
| pressures into weather models and get some good results.
| It is hard, of course, and I'm not sure personally _how
| much better_ the forecasts get. But it's absolutely
| possible.
| kmbfjr wrote:
| You are not wrong, except at scale it gets complicated quickly.
| For starters, to support large user numbers, you're going to
| have to process your own grib2 data for radar and turn them
| into tiles at zoom levels.
|
| It takes about 24 cores with a GPU to do CONUS, Canada, Alaska,
| Pacific and Caribbean data. This should be 2x for redundancy.
| Even being cheap with main processing in my basement (gen
| power, backup internet) the cloud costs to serve it are $200
| month plus data transfer. The standby grib machine spins up
| should it not see the cheap primary or the NOAAPort receiver is
| offline.
|
| There is no money to be made without whoring out your user's
| privacy. People just won't pay for a privacy focused weather
| app. I keep this going as a hobby.
| imiric wrote:
| Fair enough. Things are always more complicated at scale.
|
| But then again, we don't know whether this company is
| maintaining this infra themselves, or if they're paying for
| API access. Besides, if anything, running their own servers
| is often the more cost-effective option, so the details you
| mention might not matter in practice.
|
| My incredulity has more to do with the profitability of this
| type of software, considering that the free options are good
| enough for the average person, and that the features promoted
| in the article are hardly innovative.
|
| > There is no money to be made without whoring out your
| user's privacy.
|
| Well, I do object to that. It's certainly possible to sustain
| a profitable business without selling out your users' data.
| It may not be _as profitable_ as the advertising model, which
| is often too enticing for companies to ignore. This company
| explicitly says that their income comes directly from
| customers, so apparently I 'm underestimating the amount of
| people who find these features valuable enough to pay for
| them.
| mittermayr wrote:
| Smells heavily like the Wunderlist approach, just re-do and re-
| sell the same thing over and over.
| greatgib wrote:
| We don't care about a Weather app. Very easy to do and there are
| millions of it. What is missing is good freely accessible data
| /api for weather info.
|
| Most free one are disappearing and frustratingly in most
| countries, the weather agency you pay with your tax will not
| provide it for you.
| allddd wrote:
| Weather agencies funded by taxes should make their data
| available to everyone, since it's the public that finances
| them. Luckily, that's already the case where I live, but when I
| travel I have to rely on global sources like Open-Meteo, which
| are usually less accurate than local ones. Another open (and
| global) alternative would be great.
| estearum wrote:
| I care about a weather app and since Dark Sky disappeared there
| has been nothing even remotely close to it in usefulness, FOSS
| or otherwise.
| skadamat wrote:
| Speak for yourself :) Weather data is already freely available.
|
| I want something that integrates into my life very minimally
| and just gives me the information I need when I need it. Most
| weather apps fail at this.
| rotbart wrote:
| I can't download it, as it appears to be US only. Based on the
| screenshots, without 'feels like' support throughout the forecast
| (not just for current conditions) it wouldn't be useful where I
| live.
| khalic wrote:
| Never understood using that metric, doesn't temp and wind give
| you enough info? Genuine question
| enraged_camel wrote:
| The "feels like" metric is more closely tied to human stress
| and safety than raw temperature.
|
| In cold weather (wind chill), wind strips away the thin warm
| layer of air next to your skin, so you lose heat faster.
| Hence, "feels colder".
|
| In hot weather (heat index), humidity slows sweat
| evaporation, so your body can't cool itself as effectively.
| Hence, "feels hotter".
|
| So it's a lot more useful for decision-making (like what to
| wear, weather it is safe to run/hike, how much water you
| need, etc.) than the plain temperature.
| khalic wrote:
| thx for the perspective!
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| Just to add further color: I'm a teacher, and at my school,
| we use the "feels like" temperature to decide whether to
| send kids outside for recess. Without that metric, we'd
| need to either ignore the wind chill, create our own
| formula, or leave it up to the judgement of the individual
| teacher running recess that day. Much better to have a
| number.
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| Dew point and relative humidity, along with temperature and
| wind, are crucial measures to predicting how you will feel.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidity#Relative_humidity
|
| In the US, the 100th meridian is a popular demarcation for
| the half of the country that experiences high humidity versus
| the other half that experiences low humidity. It is why 100F
| in Phoenix, Arizona is much more tolerable than 100F in
| Atlanta, Georgia.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_meridian_west
| kristopolous wrote:
| Check out zoom.earth, found it recently. They have an app too.
|
| https://zoom.earth/
|
| Apparently it's by https://neave.com/ who looks like an indy
| developer out of london (according to this:
| https://neave.com/legal/privacy/)
|
| Also check https://earth.nullschool.net/ by
| https://github.com/cambecc
| user3939382 wrote:
| Neave has been around forever they're great
| kaizenb wrote:
| Good one thanks.
| allddd wrote:
| If a weather app is going to be truly useful, it usually needs a
| lot of permissions, like access to your location all the time,
| notifications, etc., and I don't feel comfortable giving a
| proprietary app that kind of access, especially when there are
| great FOSS alternatives.
| ajdude wrote:
| > Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app.
|
| I will never forgive them for selling out to Apple.
|
| Dark sky was the greatest weather app I've ever used, it had
| features such as considering the pressure of the atmosphere when
| predicting rain using crowd sourced phones, and it was the only
| app I've ever used that was as accurate as it was during a time
| when my job relied on quickly leaving the office and running
| across town multiple times a day.
|
| it was sad watching the API get killed off but even worse was
| that a lot of the features that dark sky had never really made it
| into Apple weather, and the rain predictions at Apple Weather had
| were never as accurate as dark sky. There were several times
| where it was actively raining and Apple weather never even knew.
| Dark sky always knew.
|
| Nope nope nope fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on
| me, I'm not touching this with 39 1/2 foot pole.
| IgorPartola wrote:
| Exactly my sentiment. Will they sell out to Google or Microsoft
| this time?
| estearum wrote:
| Assume they do sell out again in a year or 5.
|
| Why exactly should you willingly choose to have worse weather
| predictions between here and there?
|
| A weather app isn't something with lock-in or dependencies
| where using a maybe-not-permanent-solution is going to
| hamstring you if it disappears.
| bichiliad wrote:
| I have always had a ton of respect for the Dark Sky devs. I love
| the work that goes into designing interfaces that make sense of
| complex datasets intuitively, and I feel like Dark Sky was a
| textbook example. I'm genuinely really excited to try this out.
| skadamat wrote:
| Couldn't agree more! This is why I wrote the Eulogy for Dark
| Sky: https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/
| focusedone wrote:
| Sweet! Looking forward to the android version. I was _slightly_
| bitter when apple yanked the website.
| idatum wrote:
| After losing Dark Sky on Android, I discovered Foreca app.
| Works well in my area in the PNW.
|
| One thing I learned is some post processing done by these
| services are better in some areas than others.
| gcanyon wrote:
| Time for everyone who has posted lamenting how Dark Sky was
| better (that's me!) to put our money where our mouth is.
| be_erik wrote:
| Ha, this looks like someone took mine and got a real designer to
| polish it.
|
| https://wthr.cloud
| rvz wrote:
| > It's simple: when looking at the landscape of the countless
| weather apps out there, many of them lovely, we found ourselves
| feeling unsatisfied. The more we spoke to friends and family, the
| more we heard that many of them did too. And, of course, we
| missed those days as a small scrappy shop.
|
| > So let's try this again...
|
| At this point, I think that this is just going to get bought out
| by OpenAI.
|
| Won't be totally surprised to see that outcome.
| joecool1029 wrote:
| Does anyone know if the subscription can be shared with family?
| joe_hills wrote:
| I was looking at the in-app purchases list and it doesn't
| explicitly have a family-sharing plan like Weather Line does.
|
| This looks great and I'd definitely consider switching my
| family Weather Line plan over to an Acme Weather family plan if
| it becomes possible.
| j45 wrote:
| it would be great to look up weather on their website too not
| just the app like other tools.
| naet wrote:
| The app looks beautiful and the multi forecast model makes a lot
| of sense.
|
| I don't think I am ready to pay an annual subscription for it.
| Feels like a big ask for the weather when there are so many other
| free sources to get a forecast. But I appreciate that the app was
| made with real intention and wish I you success with it.
| readsdiggdaily wrote:
| Brzzy Weather is here and available all over the world. Enter
| "Monkey" in the secret code section and get lifetime access.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brzzy-weather-radar-alerts/id6...
| Exuma wrote:
| Awesome - do you offer a small widget for the lock screen?
| MuEta wrote:
| This app looks great! Only thing I can't find is snow / rain
| accumulation, which is extremely important when living in the
| mountains.
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