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https://darksky.net/ née forecast.io. I find the forecasts to be accurate for me. I've actually written an Emacs frontend to their service when it was forecast.io: http://www.gkayaalp.com/emacs.html#forecast.el. They let you make 1000 requests per day for free. On mobile I just go to their website through a bookmark.

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I've found darksky's precipitation predictions are impressively accurate - so much so you can say 'the rain's going to stop in 5 mins' and freak out your coworkers

I used to love that, but a few years ago the accuracy dropped quite a bit for me. It's now 'now bad', no longer 'freakily accurate'.

I used to find them accurate myself. Now 90% of the time it's "Next hour forecast temporarily unavailable (radar station is down)." The radar station somehow still shows visually on the map, though.

Didn't DarkSky come out first, launching Fotecast.io later?

Nope, forecast.io became darksky.net, some months ago. Also, WRT your other comment, I live in Istanbul and find it very accurate, whenever I see that it shows some precipitation I take the umbrella with me, and thus I've spent the last two years way more drier.

An app called Dark Sky came out, powered by Forecast.io. Several months ago they rebranded the service to DarkSky.net which continues to power the Dark Sky app, along with other 3rd party apps like Forecast Bar.

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