Do You Use It? iPhone Weather Apps

Sorry to reply so late Doug…
Yes, we had over 10" of rain here in Southern NH during July (Average: 3.62") and while August was drier, the total was still above average. Here in SW NH, with the Monadnock mountains (which aren’t real high, like the rockies) orographic lift (as the clouds ride up the mountains) can still squeeze out extra water.
Look folks, like politics, all weather is local. Exactly where you are located can alter, sometimes drastically, what you get as compared to someone a mile or two away. Also, there are SO MANY mitigating factors, proximity to ocean and mountains, city heat islands, etc…these large weather companies like Accuweather and the Weather channel can only look at the big picture.
So that app on your phone is only so good, and forget long range forecasts. On my site, I forecast 3 days out, and even then, things can change. So these “Seasonal Forecasts” that purport to look ahead months, are really only educated guesses. When was the last time one of these outlets went back and looked at what they forecasted, as compared to what really happened? Never.
After watching the weather here in South Central NH for over 25 years, I can tell you that nature ALWAYS evens things out. A hot summer is followed by a cool summer, a dry summer (we were talking about droughts last summer) by a wet summer at some point.
A TidBit for you guys, my next door neighbor is the publisher of Yankee Magazine, the people who produce the Old Farmers Almanac. Shall I tell you how often he has asked me what the weather will be?

My best advice, try and find a local outlet or stick to the NWS.

Rich the Weather Guy

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BTW Doug, thanks for the plug.
I am a one man show, so it is nice to know my site helps you out.
I appreciate that…

Thank you

Rich

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An app missing from the poll is Tempest, the companion app for a Tempest (WeatherFlow) weather station. Based on my experience, Tempest is the best pro-sumer weather station available today for less than $1,000 ($340 is the current price). Tempest uses a hyper-local forecast model and consistently has been the most accurate forecast at our home (even vs. Dark Sky).

When traveling, the same forecast model is based on my current location, and is just as accurate if there are Tempest weather stations nearby to influence the weather model. If there are none nearby (rare now that Tempest has been available for a few years; here’s the map), the forecast is about the same as Apple’s Weather app, in my experience.

Yep, I mentioned Tempest in the context of weather stations in the article.