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I've noticed the Weather app to be pretty unreliable to be fair.

The amount of times I've looked out the window recently when my phone says it's raining but it's completely dry or vice-versa or it says it's definitely going to rain and it doesn't.

Perhaps no weather app is good enough to deal with Scottish (specifically Glaswegian-ish) weather :)

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In the Netherlands we have an app called "Buienalarm" which uses radar to show actual rainclouds as they pass overhead and with predictions of direction. It's awesome with dealing with Amsterdam rain! It worked when I was back in the UK too (and I was just able to add Glasgow to it).

In Denmark, we have "Rainspotter". I believe it was developed by a Dutch guy, and you can see where he got his inspiration.

Same here in Stockholm! WeatherPro seems to hold up pretty well, but the built in weather app is mostly useless. Pretty though!

I'm in Stockholm too. I find klart.se, SMHI or yr.no to work pretty well.

In Gothenburg, I found weather apps pretty substandard compared to AUS where I lived before. I agree though that SMHI seems to be the best, google weather has often been comically off.

Apple Weather's forecast is unusable in the whole of Europe because of the data providers they use. Pretty disappointing to have such a US-centric view on an app that's so integral to a smartphone. They either should work with European data providers or make the app unavailable outside of those markets similar to how they do it with the "news" app.

In the UK it seems to be just about the most reliable for me.

I've always been confused by this, as a lot of European countries provide really good forecast data for free for anyone to use. You would assume that a company the size of Apple would be able to integrate with more than a single provider.

Norwegian: https://developer.yr.no

In Germany Apple lists the very reliable Deutscher Wetterdienst as one of their sources but both services seem to differ, at times quite significantly, in their forecasts.

Hi, I make Weathergraph, a visual weather forecast app/widget/watch complication, and as I am Europe based, the pretty good Finnish Foreca and Norwegian yr.no are among the data sources (along with Open-Meteo - a german, I think, indie project, and Apple Weather / Dark Sky):

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1501958576

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