Thank you for the kind words, but I didn't provide screenshots. That must have been someone else.Thanks for the screenshots. I’ve never been a fan of animations in weather apps. To me, the animations are great to demo but day-to-day I want to quickly glance at the temperature & conditions. Lightning flashes & rain drops distract from using colors & motion in more meaningful ways like temperature graphs, radar maps, etc. Even in the screenshot, the grey “Partly Cloudy” text almost disappears into the grey clouds floating behind it.
WeatherLine does/did a great job of minimal presentation (especially the widget) - I’ll miss it when it goes offline next year. Same for DarkSky.
To be clear, I don't really mind weather animations at all. I just prefer my apps to open and close with minimum bother.