I’ve been primarily using CARROT since Dark Sky went dark and they had a special discount offer for users who still had the Dark Sky app on their phones. Not cheap but well worth the price! Apple’s app may have gotten better, but it’s still not as sharp as I need it to be for hyperlocal forecasts and weather alerts. Also using Wunderground because it lets me see my personal weather station.
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I have Apple Weather on a big widget on the first screen, but my go to app for weather is MyRadar, which is incredibly accurate and helpful. I was at a ball game in Philadelphia in early July and got a notice that there would be significant rain in 20 minutes. We just made it to the car before the heavens opened! Not the first time that MyRadar has kept me safe.
I have had MyRadar and AccuWeather and probably other weather apps installed side by side with Apple’s Weather for many years. MyRadar seemed to do the best with radar maps including animation. AccuWeather may have been best at hourly forecasts. But all those widgets and notifications have been a royal confusion pain point.
The current revision of Weather on iPhone is awesome. I think it has the best of everything, including hourly weather, radar, and a great interface, and I will probably finally delete all those other apps along with their widgets and watch complications. Oh, and no ads :-)
I’m not sure I have the patience to read all the replies here, but I’m curious what real selling points remain in non-Apple weather apps. Maybe ACE will give us the roundup next week :-)
Windy is my favorite. I also use Wunderground a lot.
I use CARROT, Clime, Seasonality Go, Weather Strip, Apple, Merry Sky and Lightning Pro, depending on what I’m most interested in at any given moment. They don’t always agree, so when weather is happening you get different short-term forecasts and sometimes they really diverge. For instance, when it comes to rain, lots of them give short-term forecasts, and they often don’t agree. And it isn’t the same app that gets it right each time. Also, Merry Sky temperature predictions are consistently lower than everyone else’s for some reason, but sometimes theirs is the most accurate. Whatever else you can say about Clime, they’ve made changes based on my kvetching. They’re super-responsive when you use their “Contact Us” feature. All have different strengths and weaknesses and different approaches that work better or worse depending on what you want to know.
I’ve used WeatherBug for years. I like it because there are more points for weather reports and I can get temperature readings closer to where I live. I also use the local TV station app as they have really good radar.
I’m somewhat obsessed by weather forecasts and models. I used to work outdoors, and I now make or contribute to decisions that affect five different organizations in my town.
I especially favour weather services and apps that allow me to examine what various models forecast: ECMWF being the main model that seems to best understand my area. (It’s one of the core models in Windy; it’s at the centre of Foreca; it figures large in Meteoblue and Carrot and many others.)
I also rely heavily on apps that provide ‘real’ observations. RadarScope, Astrospheric, and our Canadian government’s own WeatherCAN app.
My preferences in my multiple-times-per-day usage: RadarScope, Astrospheric, WeatherCAN (which is from Environment Canada’s weather service and is the official source and basis of all our weather watches and warnings), Weathergraph (my favourite visual presentation, and one of the most manipulable apps), Windy (so much depth and detail, and so well-presented), Meteoblue, and only then Apple Weather (with its terrible radar …).
I’ve used Carrot, but I won’t renew my subscription. Weathergraph is much better for me. The same goes for Snowflake, and Foreca.
So Apple Weather comes low down in my usage. When it gets a decent radar, I may use it more — though Weathergraph can show Apple Weather data.
I most often use WeatherBug, mainly because it’s what I got used to on my Windows computer at work before I retired, so it’s familiar. In general it works fine. Its hourly forecast is useless, but that seems to be standard on weather apps and websites I’ve used. If I want to check alternate forecasts, as sometimes when severe weather is expected, I’ll also look at the Weather Channel’s app and Apple’s Weather app - often all three differ in forecast details. I have a few others on my phone - WTForecast, MyRadar, WeatherCaster, and a local TV station’s weather app - but I forget I have them and thus don’t check them.
None of the above. I use weather.gov, for my ZIP code, on my browser. I’m very involved with weather, living 5,000 feet up in the Sierras, about 150 miles east of San Francisco. I like the information I get from the web site and it is critical for my making medical appointments, shopping for food, and walking my dogs. I’m suspicious of apps and expect them to demonstrate that they are better than a general purpose piece of software such as Safari.
That said I recently clicked on an Apple weather bubble and liked what I saw enough to give it a try and so far find it interesting.
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Tempest, which links to my own weather station on my apple watch and iPhone
I loved Dark Sky until Apple bought it and removed some of the features I loved. It was extraordinarily precise predicting the start and stop of rain exactly where I lived. Now I use Weather and grumble a bit but I will survive. I also use Tide Graph, Wind Alert, and Paku. I am a sailor sailing from a tide affected harbor. I need to sail from 2 hours before high tide to 2 hours after hight tide. Gotta know the tides. Nice to know what wind to expect. Paku tells me how clean the air is when we are experiencing wild fires.
I use Weather Strip the most, I prefer its UI which is simple and intuitive. I can see the forecast for the next 12 hours and the next 7 days. I also use MyRadar (great set of layers and the rain radar is great, as is the two hour replay of changing conditions), Wunderground, and Windy (another great layer app) in that order. Followed by sporadic use of AccuWeather and Apple’s Weather app.
I live where there are tornadoes, so I use the news app for the TV station with the best weather team.
I use these two:
CARROT weather 75%, Apple weather 25%
Actually, I use both Apple Weather and the Wunderground app.
I use Wunderground and Apple Weather, Underground more often. I actually like Apple Weather’s for the Graphic. Not too important, just a diversion:-)
I used to like the Weather app, but it started getting more and more “decorated” and I didn’t find it elegant or simple anymore. Eventually I just made a bookmark for Google weather for my town and stuck that on the first page of my home screen. Did the same for other Bay Area cities and put those in a Weather folder. Deleted the app.
Australian Bureau of Meteorology BOM Weather on iPhone and iPad (also gives tide information)
Apple Weather on Watch
WeatherRadar for short-term weather.
SMHI väder (Swedish governmental meteorological service) for longterm weather.