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Comment by wlesieutre | Hacker News Reader

The first year of the new weather app they didn't even give you hourly precipitation chance throughout the day. If I had to pick what were the two key features of Dark Sky it would be 1) impending rain notifications, and 2) hourly precipitation chances.

It's included now, but still not as well as Dark Sky did it.

For an app not trying to reproduce Dark Sky, but doing a nice job with an overview of the day's weather, I've been using Overlook. But now I'm seeing that its app store listing is gone. https://apps.apple.com/app/overlook-weather/id1639571738

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I’ve been using Carrot. Okay but also not as good.

Plus a very expensive (relatively) subscription. I loved Dark Sky because I bought it and then I had it.

>Plus a very expensive (relatively) subscription. I loved Dark Sky because I bought it and then I had it.

Ongoing customer value (hyper-local precipitation forecasts) that has ongoing costs for the developer (weather data) is unsustainable without ongoing revenue (subscriptions). This may have had a thing or two to do with Dark Sky ending in an acquihire.

There’s RainAlarm which achieves a similar feature by downloading (freely available) radar imagery and notifying you when the rain echoes are nearby. Worked pretty well when I used this a few years ago. (I’ve now moved to a country where Apple’s rain warnings are pretty accurate.)

https://rain-alarm.com

I'm fond of MyRadar. https://myradar.com

While the radar view is nice, the outlook view is very nice.

From a screen shot of the screen shot in the App Store: https://imgur.com/a/U8o1DJw and my own outlook

The 'ring' data view at the top (and bottom of the second image) is a nice way to represent the data in a limited amount of space (phone / watch widgets).

I do hate this about so many weather apps:

> Data Used to Track You

> The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

> Location

> Identifiers

> Usage Data

Carrot added a linear forecast view, which is very close to the Dark Sky interface and it's been great.

> linear forecast view

Which view do you mean? I was a longtime Dark Sky user, and now I switch between Carrot and Apple Weather.

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