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Re: Acme Weather

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Post by vollmarj » Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

imarkphillips wrote: post #21

How about reporting on yesterday's weather? Its hard to plan a walk in the forest today if I dont know how much it rained yesterday.

This is exactly what Precip does. Other apps just show the past forecast which can often be wrong. The Precip app uses radar to measure what actually happened so you'll know if that trail is muddy or not. https://precip.ai

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by vollmarj » Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

skadamat wrote: post #82

bichiliad wrote: post #65

I have always had a ton of respect for the Dark Sky devs. I love the work that goes into designing interfaces that make sense of complex datasets intuitively, and I feel like Dark Sky was a textbook example. I’m genuinely really excited to try this out.

Couldn't agree more! This is why I wrote the Eulogy for Dark Sky: https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/

I reference this often! Thanks for writing it.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by danpalmer » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 1:21 AM UTC

krelas wrote: post #127

danpalmer wrote: post #114

Did DarkSky ever make it out of the US? I know it was US only for a long time, as it seems this is. Even recently Apple Weather was hilariously bad in Australia. I was always asking my partner for the weather because her Pixel weather app was reasonably reliable and Apple Weather was always wrong. Weather forecasts are such a localised issue. I've never seen an app that does well globally.

Just get the BOM app, nothing else comes close for accurate weather here.

I've never had a good forecast from the BOM directly. I'm sure everyone is using their data in some form, but the BOM itself seems awful, unless perhaps you have the nostalgia for it?

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by clashmeifyoucan » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC

I enjoyed the part about factoring in unpredictability. One of my peeves with weather apps had been that they do switch the forecast on the fly if it is inaccurate, and I have joked before that what we need is a derivative weather app accountability app that tells you how often a weather app corrects itself. So I'm excited to see if Acme makes a meaningful difference!

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by PlunderBunny » Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 3:05 AM UTC

If a weather app had access to your photos in real time (I know - stay with me here) it could deduce the local weather from what it can see in the sky in your photos, essentially crowd sourcing real-time weather updates with no effort from users.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by yencabulator » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

khalic wrote: post #51

rotbart wrote: post #43

I can't download it, as it appears to be US only. Based on the screenshots, without 'feels like' support throughout the forecast (not just for current conditions) it wouldn't be useful where I live.

Never understood using that metric, doesn’t temp and wind give you enough info? Genuine question

In sunny dry US Southwest, whether the sun hits you directly or whether there are clouds in the way makes a huge difference. The "cloudiness" indicator is nowhere near precise enough, but the feels-like temperature readings generally do a decent job.

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by Lord_Zero » Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 3:46 PM UTC

pixelatedindex wrote: post #128

malfist wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got a link to the manifesto? My kagi-fu isn't finding it

Speaking of subscriptions, how is the Kagi one working out for you? Is it worth the switch?

I love Kagi, the results are great, the assistant is great, and I like customizing the search result UI as well to look as clean as possible. Its like having OG Google back.