Ask HN: What is going on with Apple Weather? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is going on with Apple Weather?

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Post by SkyPuncher » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 1:16 AM UTC

contact9879 wrote: post #26

SkyPuncher wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is the pandemic actually caused some serious gaps in weather forecasts. Some commercial flights transmit weather conditions to central authorities , which are extremely useful for building granular forecasts. During the pandemic, commercial air traffic plummeted. While it has returned to normal levels, it seems the models are still missing some historical data.

Interesting. Not sure that is the issue here though. No other weather forecasting source has had similar issues recently.

I’ve had issues with nearly all of them.

At the end of the day, most of these tools are simply displaying NOAA data in the user friendly format.

Re: Ask HN: What is going on with Apple Weather?

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Post by spdif899 » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 12:25 PM UTC

contact9879 wrote: post #29

tracerbulletx wrote: post #5

I've also been experiencing weird behavior like that. Also the radar map fails to load a lot, and sometimes it looks like the radar animation plays backwards? Seems pretty unreliable. I've been using Windy instead.

Windy has been great. I am in dire need of a quality weather app for Android in the same vein of Carrot for iOS and the old Dark Sky app. The foreca app is buggy and ugly, the Carrot app is severely handicapped, Weather Channel and Accuweather are more ads/news focused. While Windy is useful, its primary use as a weather map doesn't match my primary use case of daily and hourly forecasts.

I've switched to iOS (and now use carrot due to the built in app's unreliability). Today weather was my go-to for years on Android: https://todayweather.co/

Re: Ask HN: What is going on with Apple Weather?

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Post by SkyPuncher » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 1:19 PM UTC

contact9879 wrote: post #29

tracerbulletx wrote: post #5

I've also been experiencing weird behavior like that. Also the radar map fails to load a lot, and sometimes it looks like the radar animation plays backwards? Seems pretty unreliable. I've been using Windy instead.

Windy has been great. I am in dire need of a quality weather app for Android in the same vein of Carrot for iOS and the old Dark Sky app. The foreca app is buggy and ugly, the Carrot app is severely handicapped, Weather Channel and Accuweather are more ads/news focused. While Windy is useful, its primary use as a weather map doesn't match my primary use case of daily and hourly forecasts.

MyRadar was my go-to Android.

With that being said, nothing was good in the wake of DarkSky leaving.

Re: Ask HN: What is going on with Apple Weather?

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Post by luos2 » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 12:37 PM UTC

For me, in Central EU, Apple Weather is something you can not trust. It usually forecasts rain when there will be nothing, and nothing when it rains.

It is incorrect after the fact as well, ie. it says that there was no rain in the past 24 hours even if it was pouring. Another funny thing it does, it displays a warning about severe storms but forecasts 0 mm rain.

It's not something you can trust, at least here. It is so true we regularly joke about it in the family.

We have popular site here which usually is correct, so I am not sure what they are doing. I guess maybe their resolution of data is bad or just the data is bad.