I love the design of snowflake. Just an incredible amount of data compressed into an easy to read screen.
Agree it’s a bit of a bear to change locations but overall the best weather app I’ve used.
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I used to rely mainly on Dark Sky for quick and near term forecasts and WeatherPro for longer range ones. Now, I’m mostly using Carrot but checking in with Apple Weather because I don’t find either as accurate or as usable as Dark Sky was.
I use an app called ‘Willy Weather’, because it uses weather information from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). Apple’s app, and most other third party ones, uses different, inaccurate data.
In the land ‘down-under’ we’re lucky that our Bureau of Meteorology’s (BOM) official weather app is excellent. Frankly, I’ve only opened Apple’s app a handful of times, and then only to compare to what BOM was showing me.
I use any browser on any handy web-connected device. I have a semi-pro (Davis Instruments) weather monitoring device in my back yard. (From my own web site:
Data is collected every 2.5 seconds and the site is updated every 2 minutes. The data is collected from the Davis™ station using Mac mini® … hardware running WeatherCat for Mac software.)
From within my web site, I have access to several other weather collection sites, some of which I also send my data. I have direct links to Windy, National Weather Service, AWEKAS, CWOP, PWS Weather® and Weather Underground® (this source has become much less reliable since it was bought by IBM). I also get METAR (weather for aviators from various airports) reports that I convert to more human-readable format.
I’m sure I used Apple’s Weather app, just can’t remember when! 
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Up until we relocated from California to Nevada a year ago, my wife and I depended upon the Dark Sky app for daily weather forecasts. While we lived in CA, the Dark Sky app was generally very accurate. However, since we moved to NV, and especially since Dark Sky, er, went dark, we have found that the weather predictions for our local area are not always accurate at all. Given that we live in a desert region, weather conditions can sometimes change rapidly throughout the day, particularly during the “monsoon season,” when thunderstorms might unexpectedly blow through rapidly. Unfortunately, it seems like the iOS Weather app is frequently not correct in describing either our current weather or the forecast for the next few hours. It is quite frustrating, to be honest.
There should be the option to choose more than one app. I’ve been going back and forth with Weather and WeatherBug and Yahoo Weather trying to find something reliable. None of them really are though. I don’t think anybody in the world can predict weather (except for an incoming typhoon) over the course of a day.
I’ve even seen regular Weather on my Watch and iPhone show two different results. Both differing from what I see out the window.
I love it when I learn something…thanks!
Wunderground
Apple weather is convenient on the phone and reliable enough for a casual check. When I need more detailed info. or need to confirm due to outdoor commitments, rapid weather changes, etc. I always go to the Weather Underground (wunderground.com) site. That’s also my go-to on my Mac. It’s also more geographically specific, with multiple weather stations even in my dispersed region of rural Vermont.
Apple weather is a disappointment after dark sky. I use RadarScope and Windy. The windy App and website are great. Worth the subscription fees.
I was a Dark Sky user for years, trusted it, and was comfortable with it. I’ve stayed with the new Weather app, but am not entirely happy with it. The temperature is always off by 3 to 5° F in one direction or the other: actual temperature is hotter (in summer) and colder (in winter). I used Dark Sky’s precip (radar) map a lot; in Weather it seems to be less useful. And it doesn’t show air quality, which is important now with all the wildfires, other than echoing NWS alerts. I use the AirNow website for local PM2.5 readings. This morning we had PM2.5 of almost 200, with full cloud cover and 58° F. Weather reported 68° F and sunny. I always submit a report when it’s wrong but no idea if that’s actually improving accuracy.
I have used Wunderground for years. I prefer the iOS version to the MacOS version. I like being able to start with a general overview and shift easily to the next ten days and then to the hourly details of today.
I consult multiple apps as they do not generally agree on temperature or rain amounts (especially so-called ‘real time’ stuff. I start with Apple Weather but also regularly use Accuweather and The Weather Channel apps. I have about a dozen weather apps and often check several one after the other.
Weather Underground, but I get rain totals from from waterdata.usgs.gov for my locality
I live in Australia so I use the official Bureau of Meteorology app which is much more comprehensive than Apple’s
Rain Parrot gives me pretty good warning about impending rain but only works in Australia.
I also use AccuWeather, but I no longer have a paid subscription as I don’t find it completely reliable.
I use and like the Apple Weather app. I used to use AccuWeather, but grew weary of their ads and was delighted when Apple Weather seemed good enough to replace it. I haven’t spent any time with the radar views, so I can’t complain about that feature’s apparent problems. I’ve found the hourly forecasts reasonable accurate, and I live in the Columbia River gorge where things change pretty quickly and nobody’s predictions are super reliable.
I am stunned at how many in this group used Dark Sky. Is that reflective of the public at large or is there something about TidBITS readers that made Dark Sky more appealing? Or did we all just hear about it from the same sources? (I think I got hooked onto it years ago by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber.) Very interesting.
WeatherBug. It loads maps pretty quickly. Don’t love it but like it enough not to switch. Inertia drives my continued use.
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Wunderground, WeatherBug, Storm Radar. Paku for air quality.
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