[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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