alt Hacker NewsIt’s crazy we’ll never have forecasts as good as dark sky again. What kind of magic were they doing?
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Dark Sky is still one of my all time favorite app. The accuracy of the forecast within the coming hour is to this day unmatched. It constantly reminded me of Back to the Future 2, where Doc says the rain will stop in “in exactly 5 seconds”
I never used that, but I like Rain Parrot in Australia. Not sure if it's similar. It will tell me that it's likely to rain in x minutes, then stop y minutes later, and it's almost always fairly accurate.
The only forecasted rainfall for local areas within a very short timeframe. This made it possible to utilize simple factors to predict the near future.
It is built into Apple Weather after Apple purchased them.
Dark sky was awful and all of its acclaim comes from confirmation bias. In seattle I'd see its forecast change by the minute. The whole point of a forecast is to know what will happen and if that keeps changing, then we do not know.
They're back at it again
https://acmeweather.com/
https://www.theverge.com/tech/883089/acme-weather-forecast-a...