 These days my go-to example of "you cannot bet on having access to better technology as time progresses" is "I used to have an app on my phone that could predict the next hour of weather with startling accuracy and that is no longer an option" (I am talking about Dark Sky) Edited to add: I only want to hear suggestions for services/sites/apps if they offer the same ~10min interval microforecasts for the upcoming hour that Dark Sky used to, because that is the thing I am lamenting 37 comments
@nelson that's the thing, I can't even solve the problem by buying an iPhone - apple weather is dogshit from what my friends tell me @darius @nelson Hello Weather is a decent replacement. They have a similar API service as well. https://weathermachine.io/  It sure does not have anything like the super legible graphs Dark Sky had. I moved to Weather Strip, which has a pretty legible one-glance graph of what I wanted out of Dark Sky. I think there's an Android version too. @darius Actually, Dark Sky wasn't very good at predicting the weather and it had a really weird method for trying to do so. It literally did everything via image analysis and completely ignored everything we know about weather science. https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/dark-sky-weather-app-apple-meteorologists-rip.html @thebishopgame this article is about how it was inaccurate for forecasts beyond an hour - which matches my experience. What I also experienced was it was shockingly accurate for very short term forecasts. I could spend an extra 10 minutes at coffee shop to avoid being rained on thanks to Dark Sky @darius Heh, that was not my experience with it at all - every time I tried to make decisions based on it, I would get metaphorically and sometimes literally soaked. Cool that you got some good out of it, though. @coral yes - I was going to explain further that even apple users don't have this functionality but it got a bit too wordy    @darius Wunderground is always spot-on for me...which is weird since I think they're owned by Weather Channel which is garbage... @admin does it forecast in five minute intervals for the next hour? That's the feature I miss @darius ahh, no other than the radar view they only do hourly, but that's usually good enough to interpolate a fair bit IME. I know weather channel does 15 minute intervals but I feel like they make those predictions a few days out and never update them...  @darius iāve been using @CARROT lately and itās better than dark sky ever was https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/ @exchgr just checked and the android app is full of 1* reviews saying how much it lacks features compared to iOS :/ @exchgr right, looks like the Android app does not support the customization widgets and sources @darius i know this isnāt super helpful, but iām hearing more and more that androidās app ecosystem lags behind iOSās quite a lot these days in general @darius and thatās about to change due to regulatory pressure, which š¤ may force apple to allow alternate browser engines on iOS at long last @darius @CARROT i have no experience with the android app, and it looks pretty different from iOS, but similar to macOS. the macOS app is not very customizable, but iirc i had to customize the iOS app to get it to show. iām using accuweather as the source, and not all sources show it. you can manually add a āminutely forecastā section, or the ācurrent observationsā section will show it automatically when thereās precipitation in the next hour @darius Argh, weather apps. :( We are on the front end of an ice storm right now, and for the last several days the NWS warnings have predicted ice accumulations of āup to one half an inch," plus snow/sleet of āup to one inch.ā At the same time, Weather Underground has been predicting 4-5 inches of snow. And Apple's Weatherkit has been (and still is) predicting 12-15 inches of wintry mix. ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ @darius I'm remembering when back in 2011 google maps had realtime transit navigation that knew the stops and where you were on the line and notified you when you were getting close to your stop and they just dropped all that entirely for 6 or 7 years and it was worse than before for a while after it came back - It was fine last I checked but I haven't used it for a bit and I'd assume it's still there but I've been wrong about exactly that before so š¤· @darius Have you seen https://merrysky.net/ based on https://pirateweather.net/  @darius Apple swears that all I need to do is switch to Apple Weather because the Dark Sky technology has been fully integrated into it now I'm like... okay but I didn't use Dark Sky for the technology. I used it for the 10 minute forecast magic trick @alrs yes, I have that pinned on my phone's home page. It is an hourly forecast though. I am lamenting the lack of a detailed forecast at 5 or 10 minute intervals for the next hour |
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@darius I'm sad about that too. Android completely shut out by monopolistic behavior. I gather the Apple app isn't as good as Dark Sky, either.