The two apps I use most of the time are Apple’s Weather and Yr from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute & Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
I’d really love to see a revived WeatherLine or similar designed app.
I also have Hello Weather, Forecast Bar, Mercury, Snowflake & Wx on my iPhone and iPad.
I’ve chosen these apps primarily based on their data collection policies. Many of them don’t collect any data, which is good in this day and age since you never know where that information may end up.
I’d rather pay for an app which doesn’t collect any data than get an app for “free” which tracks your every movement.
I’ve also looked at a number of other apps (installed, then deleted) and have chosen not to use them based on data collection policy, interface or accuracy.
Weather apps are to the 2020s that contact managers were back in late ‘90s. Still looking for one I really like.
I do use Weather although I liked the Dark Sky package better. My other two apps are WeatherBug and MyRadar. WeatherBug has a great lightning tracker, MyRadar has the best presentation of NWS radar data.
The only thing I dislike about MyRadar is that it’s doesn’t have a future forecast for the radar…but fortunately Carrot does. I only noticed it recently so I’m not sure if it is a recent addition or I just never noticed it.
I use Apple’s Weather app along with a few other ones.
There is one serious issue with the Apple Weather app though. It doesn’t always show all government-issued alerts. For example, we often get storm watches, wind warnings, and things like that issued by the local National Weather Service office, but these often do not come through. Meanwhile, the other apps that I use (AccuWeather, The Weather Channel, etc.) all will show these alerts.
I’ve reported this issue to Apple over the many iterations of the Weather app and they have not once addressed the issue. It’s insane.
I use Weather Pro (an app from the App store). It requires a small yearly fee and can be used on 5 devices. It is extremely reliable, on the city level, gives much details and even satellite maps, temperature maps etc. The forecast goed ut to 14 days. Obviously 14 days ahead is not certain, but surprisingly accurate
Former DarkSky user, and now Apple Weather, along with Windy. I may move to Hello or Carrot as Apple’s view on my phone doesn’t allow JUST precipitation when selecting day’s weather, instead some waveform of temperature with no accuracy of exact hour.
Not related but I also visit tornadoHQ for details on alerts when applicable.
In that view there is a little icon to the right of the temperature. Tap that and you can see the amount of precipitation expected for each hour. The higher the bar, the heavier the rain.
Using the weather office for Switzerland‘s App MeteoSwiss because it is based on a weather model with a much finer grid than the global one, which gives much more precise predictions for our country with its small scale weather because of the mountains. Also it has many more features like pollen predictions, precipitation radar etc. It is also completely free unless you need flight weather for example.
For international European weather I use yr.no‘s App, the Norwegian weather office official App it is free, features a rich range of data presented very well. Very happy with it for the European continent.
Yeah, that is correct. However, my issue is that you have to click another icon to get to that. I mean, I have the phone lock screen widget set but when I open Weather, it doesn’t allow customizing that first screen defaults (always temp). I like to have ability to change that and Apple doesn’t allow it, just makes you click another step. Semantics I guess…
Apple Weather for me. I’ve tried a few subscription apps such as Carrot and WeatherPro. While they were OK, they didn’t offer enough over weather to justify the extra cost.
I do still sometimes take a look at new weather apps - but more out of interest in their UI design than any belief that they may be more accurate!
I was a big fan of WUnderground, and still use the website. Their 2 “10 day” graphs provide maximum useful information in a format that would make Edward Tufte happy.
I tried Carrot, it was OK. (I did great on the geography quizzes).
On the built-in App, it does what I need, except there are problems loading the weather radar picture at times.
I use local WSYR 9 Live Doplar Radar - often multiple times a day. It’s accurate 99% of the time and I can see where rain, snow and storms are in the area and moving towards my location.
I also use Carrot sporadically. They are just as accurate - even for hourly forecasts.
Weather Mate Pro… lots of useful features… including it allows you to select personal weather stations as your data source and shows the personal stations around you on a map (including precipitation, which the iOS Weather Underground map no longer displays).
Apple’s Weather app is not the best here in the Netherlands. I prefer two local apps, WeerPlaza and Buienradar, with local meteorologists sitting between the weather models and the prediction. Just today Apple warned me for severe weather (thunder storm) happening, where there was not even a drizzle at the time and according to Weerplaza the closest lightning was ca. 300 km away.