They're back at it again
replyhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/883089/acme-weather-forecast-a...
well, that's interesting. the design it's a bit of a letdown - very very very low information density, lots of horizontal scrolling, a tab bar item dedicated to notifications (which one never changes) and another one dedicated to community (which is empty of content). Hopefully good data and good notifications make up for the poor design.
replyOh, they finally launched it in Europe. Let’s see whether it’s as good as people say. :)
replyDark Sky is still one of my all time favorite app. The accuracy of the forecast within the coming hour is to this day unmatched. It constantly reminded me of Back to the Future 2, where Doc says the rain will stop in “in exactly 5 seconds”
replyI never used that, but I like Rain Parrot in Australia. Not sure if it's similar. It will tell me that it's likely to rain in x minutes, then stop y minutes later, and it's almost always fairly accurate.
replyThe only forecasted rainfall for local areas within a very short timeframe. This made it possible to utilize simple factors to predict the near future.
replyIt is built into Apple Weather after Apple purchased them.
> It is built into Apple Weather after Apple purchased them.
replyDid Apple lobotomize the tech when they integrated it, or lose access to whatever upstream data Dark Sky had access to? Apple Weather is comically bad (though not nearly as bad as Google's weather searches).
I use it in Oregon and it's remarkably accurate at predicting rain, both timing and severity.
replyApple Weather (followed by Xweather (formerly Aeris Weather)) seems the most accurate forecast for Prague when it comes to TP/FP for rain in Prague by my long term experience when I compared multiple data sources
replyWhile that might be true but apple weather still fails compared to dark sky. I still don't use it for radar like I did with dark sky - they effed up the UI.
replyIt feels like dark sky was more proactive with push notifications
replyits nowhere near as good as it was in Dark Sky. the apple weather app is pretty bad where I'm at.
replyDark sky was awful and all of its acclaim comes from confirmation bias. In seattle I'd see its forecast change by the minute. The whole point of a forecast is to know what will happen and if that keeps changing, then we do not know.
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