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Apple api - nope. Norwegian Meteorological Institute api - yup.

That’s mostly in jest though (sent from an iphone) but also because Apple bought darksky (which was my preferred weather api/source in the past) and I’d assume that’s a big part of/rolled into the weatherkit offerings now?

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I loved dark sky, I'm using it for my own smart home app, but I should move away from it much earlier, because it just became so inaccurate I can no longer rely on it. I don't know if this is for my region only, or a country (Poland) or whatever, but if a forecast says it will rain for 7 days straight and there is no rain, but the rain falled immediately after forecast stopped showing any rain then it's worthless to use.

I don't know if Weather Kit will provide the same accuracy.

I'm in a process of switching to Open Weather Map right now, I started when apple announced Weather Kit to Dark Sky users via mail. But I will try this Norwegian API as well.

Same here. I have a weather station at home that publishes out to the internet and have used Dark Sky's API for years to display some maps on it. Now I have to switch to something. I live OpenWeatherMap, but going to check out the Norwegian API now.

I'm in NYC and I think Dark Sky has become more innaccurate. Don't know if it's truly gotten worse than before but there are plenty of times it's wrong on if it's going to rain. The funniest thing is it seems Siri still uses the Weather Channel data because my Dark Sky app is usually a bit different than if I ask Siri what the weather is like.

I've been using Dark Sky for years but I uninstalled it yesterday. Since the acquisition, the native Weather app has been massively upgraded with a lot of Dark Sky's best features and is very good now.

I ran the two in parallel for a few months to compare the alerts and accuracy. Weather won out.

Weird, because for me, in the UK, the weather radar is much, much lower resolution in the Weather app.

Dark Sky app however always had a longstanding bug that it’d never show past radar, only future sliding predictions, so I guess both have their problems.

I’m holding on a bit longer until Apple releases their app for the iPad. Until then, Dark Sky is probably still the best bet.

Check out the giant red warning at the top of this page: https://darksky.net/forecast/40.7127,-74.0059/us12/en

Interesting. The notice doesn’t appear within the Dark Sky app at all. But the Weather app does have a lot of improvements, I think. Perhaps under iOS 16 we’ll just see the Dark Sky app disappear and get replaced by the Apple Weather app.

I assume the Dark Sky app simply disappears from the App Store on December 31, and existing copies display an error message directing you to the weather app.

If you preferred Dark Sky before then what do you have against WeatherKit? Isn't it basically a repackaged Dark Sky for half the price?

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