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Universal Dark Sky app support ends 1/1/2023
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This makes me sad because I still use their website frequently. It is refreshing to be able to quickly pull up the weather without being blasted by ads.
I do like MyRadar. Its aviation wx overlays are cool. But I gave it up over privacy issues.
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That is not good. When I first started using it several years ago, all those identifiers were not involved.
I don't see 'next hour' rain forecast in the weather app, in the announcement Apple showed a little 'next hour' graph like the one in Dark Sky but this is missing in the weather app, touching 'precipitation' just goes to the radar map with a 12 hour radar forecast - am I missing something? I don't see any graph showing whether it's going to rain in 10 minutes or not . . . .
I was surprised to find a good amount of info available in Apple Weather, but it's not very discoverable. I originally deleted it because it seemed too basic to be useful....
Same here. I'm realizing there are layers of detail available. On a couple of my devices I've removed Dark Sky just to force learning where things are in Weather.
When I started using MyRadar there was not App Tracking Transparency Report! Haha!
I'm torn, because it's still a pretty powerful app. I paid for several of the one-time updates. Oh well.
I love the notifications from Dark Sky on my Apple Watch, "Drizzle starting in five minutes", that sort of thing.
Can I get this from the default Apple weather app now?
Also, I use the Dark Sky complication on my watch as well, is there a default Apple weather equivalent?
Can I get this from the default Apple weather app now?
Also, I use the Dark Sky complication on my watch as well, is there a default Apple weather equivalent?
Precipitation Alerts: Yes! Since iOS 15 last year. Dark Sky offers much more rich notifications (e.g. if temp forecast to go below 27 degrees). I have both apps set up. The results are sometimes amusing. Dark Sky isn't as reliable as it once was and Apple Weather sometimes has different ideas about when it will rain at my location. Although they bought Dark Sky, they still get wx data from the Weather Channel.
Of course there are Apple Weather complications for Apple Watch; several actually! Also iPhone lock screen widgets. Whether they will meet your need is up to you.
AccuWeather is the same way. If you care even a little bit about your privacy, don’t give them your location as “Always”. These apps sell your location to the highest bidder to include governments and law enforcement. There’s multiple articles talking about this type of thing. It’s not good at all.
I'm not on the iPadOS 16 beta, but weather is supposed to be included. Maybe someone who's doing the beta can chime in.
Added: actually I installed the iPadOS beta and yes, the weather is there. Yay.
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You can also see it anytime by tapping on the day's detail (which normally defaults to Temperature), and then using the drop down to get any of the many other details including Precipitation.
I need to find a replacement for Dark Sky for a history and average temp feature, paid or free. Any recommendations?
I'm looking for an app that shows the historic and average temperature for any location and date of the year. Does anyone know an app that will do that? In Dark Sky, I just tap on "time history" and set the date ahead a year of the date I want and that is the average temp for that date, and set it back for history.
I'm looking for an app that shows the historic and average temperature for any location and date of the year. Does anyone know an app that will do that? In Dark Sky, I just tap on "time history" and set the date ahead a year of the date I want and that is the average temp for that date, and set it back for history.
I don't know of an app that provides historical temp data, but there is historical data available on the NOAA/National Weather Service website if you're located in the US.
You can start at https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate, click on your US location and see if the data is available. You can select any start date you like. For my location with a couple of clicks, I got a month's worth of temps' max/min/avg/departure as well as precipitation data in a sortable table. The table data is also copyable to paste into a spreadsheet.
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