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Dark Sky users can use the Apple Weather app

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I guess what annoys me about Apple Weather is that data I could get with Dark Sky by simply scrolling now takes two clicks. There’s a big difference between .5” of snow a day and 12”, so being able to find this information quickly is important.

Adding more clicks to get to the same information feels like a regression.

It would be nice if I could specify in settings or something to “show these parts of weather data first” or something.

Also pet peeve but the radar map always loads slowly. In big square chunks, can take 3-5 seconds to fully render a storm system, whereas dark sky this was always pretty instant.

Yeah, I've been mostly using Apple Weather as I need to get used to it anyways. But for a few things, in particular precipitation amounts, I immediately switch back to Dark Sky.

Carrot weather app is very customisable to show the information you want

Hi, I tried to do my best to get all the hourly weather data into a single chart vizualization - have a look at https://weathergraph.app

It uses (apart from soon to close Dark Sky API) yr.no, indie-made open-meteo, and Foreca (which consistently ranks among top 3 services at https://www.forecastadvisor.com and is similarly good in Europe).

The app cares about privacy, has no ads and no tracking (as this is how I like all apps to behave). A subscription or a single lifetime payment pays for weather data and all themes and weather metrics, but there is a free version with yr.no data.

I'll be happy to answer any questions - Tomas from Weathergraph.

What a misleading article title-as a pre-existing Dark Sky user, their solution is to buy a new phone. Thanks Apple.

Doesn't it work on all the iPhones that Dark Sky worked on, as long as still supported by iOS updates?

No: Consider iPhone users with old phones which could open a browser to access darksky.net but cannot get the latest iOS (to which the updated weather app is tied.)

Also: Consider all the Android users which had the DarkSky app, plus all the other devices which could open a browser to visit darksky.net.

I have a Pixel 4a. I guess I do have a MBP I could use instead, but that's even more ridiculous. I'm not gonna take my laptop on a bike ride just to check the weather.

Dark Sky gave me a fast look at what I needed to know. The new Apple weather app is overloaded, too busy, and not particularly great to use. Steve is not amused.

I don’t have an issue with using the Weather app over darksky on my iPhone. My issue is that the darksky website was a pinned tab on my browser cause there’s no alternative weather website like it.

I’m in Midwest and I care about feels like temperature more than the current temperature cause wind makes all the difference. I don’t want to scroll down to see feels like temperature every time. Apple weather makes it impossible to make feels like temperature default or like to add it to lock screen or widgets.

Does anyone have an alternative they recommend? I installed Carrot but haven’t used it much yet.

I haven’t found one as nice, but windy works well, if not for a lack of localized default settings. I currently use weather bug, but I have simply lowered my expectations when it comes to weather apps.

I’ve been using Carrot and I like it, but I feel like it has way more customization than I want. There’s so many menu layers and display panels and options.

I’ve been using Carrot with Dark Sky data. I assume that they will switch to Apple Weather API.

I prefer the UI of darksky.net for both mobile and desktop despite it being the same data

I love the forecast precipitation for the next hour, it used to scarily accurate, now it’s far wide if the mark.

Also the radar was interesting, seeing if the rain would just miss me, or go straight over me. Weather provides the information but it’s down a few taps, not easy to get to.

Those looking for hourly precipitation timelines at a glance, check out my recent project Merry Sky: https://merrysky.net/forecast/nyc/us

This is great, the radar on Apple’s weather app now looks and works like far sky’s!

Those users who use the Dark Sky API... where are you going now?

I use a few elements in my weather station website, and now need to find somewhere else to grab a few things.

How about: https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/

Nah. I'm just looking for a simple frame, and not looking to integrate some API.

Example from Dark Sky - https://forecast.io/embed/#lat=38&lon=-94&name=Test

I was going to probably go with Openweathermap for the time being.

Congratulations on solving the problem you created!

Except you didn't solve it, either. Classic Apple.

Still no historical weather data.

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