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> one feature no other weather app has

WeatherNerd: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-nerd/id958363882

Has a calendar icon, tap it to see any actual day historically or, if more tham 2 weeks ahead, based on almanac type prediction. Used to be best out there for considering travel three months from now.

I’m a weather geek with ~4 folder panes of 9 apps each, and WeatherNerd is in the “must have” front pane.

Dark Sky used to be my #1, but was superseded by Carrot (which has a Dark Sky feed) for everyday use and Windy.app at storm-prone water front with microclimates and wind/wave/tide patterns, thanks to meteogram-style overlay of competing weather models for precipitation and wind.

Windy.app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/windy-app-wind-weather/id99707...

iOS 16 Weather is remarkable though. It’s now easily third on my list, and would likely be first for most people especially since no subscription fee. For instance, try to use apps to look at UV graph for next Saturday — few can. The live background is fun, and the iPad layout is as much detail instrumentation as most people can handle.

But in my book, DarkSky started it all — the race for precise accurate practical usable micro cell weather, and happy for them they are now getting into so many more hands through the new iOS 16 app.

But Carrot is the spiritual successor.

Carrot: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/carrot-weather-alerts-radar/id...

It has TimeTravel too. And because Carrot has a fully editable UI builder, it transmogrifies into whatever weather app you like best.



> Used to be best out there for considering travel three months from now. --

While not directly comparable I love weatherspark for planning travel [0]. I first used it to help plan honeymoon travel.

[0] https://weatherspark.com/


Got any Android recommendations? I've been using meteogram because I can configure it to be pretty close to what I want.

My ideal weather app would be able to tell me the chance of rain on a specific route at a specific time. Now that I'm no longer bike commuting, that's not so important. I still like to know chance of rain, per hour, for my location.


On iOS, there is the "Weather on the Way" app, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/on-the-way-road-trip-planner/i.... I bet there's something similar on Android: perhaps search using terms from this app's description to find the closest analog.


You can get weather on route from Climacell, now tomorrow.io, which offers delivery and logistics route planning based on microcells.

https://www.tomorrow.io/


it looks like weathernerd uses the darksky api, so it will have to find a new source for weather data or it’s also gone soon.


Last I subbed to Carrot it supported a few sources but the darksky API was the best there too. Apple pulling it out of community availability hurts.


Won't those apps be able to use Apple's WeatherKit framework to get the same data?

Of course it still affects other platforms like Android or web apps.




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