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Dark Sky Updates iOS App With New Design, Unified Timeline, and Improved Notifications

Would be nice if more developers would offer a trial. Even though it is only $4.00, I guess I will stick with Carrot Weather, instead of blindly buying just to see whats up.

The screenshots do look very 'in your face might need some sunglasses to block the blinding white screen' look.
 
I like this app, and this looks like a nice visual update. However, the actual weather predictions seem to have been worse lately. Where I am it seems to predict rain often when it doesn't actually rain, and there have been several times I've noticed it's high temperature prediction to be nearly 10 degrees off from every other weather app.
 
tfigs said:
The radar shows no distinction between rain, snow, ice, etc.
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That’s because radar can’t reliably differentiate between different types of hydrometeors. In the dual-pol era radar can get it right most of the time, but it’s far from good enough to take as gospel. As someone going into meteorology, I’d never expose the NEXRAD hydrometeor classification product to the general public because that’s just asking for complaints.

To my knowledge, what Dark Sky does—and this is the most meteorologically sound way of doing it right now—is to examine surface observations and, if possible, upper-air observations to determine whether it should be raining, snowing, sleeting, or freezing-raining at a given point. And yes, sometimes it’ll still be wrong.
 
The old Dark Sky sucked, especially with the Complication on the Apple Watch. For me, the new rewritten Dark Sky replaces Carrot Weather, the Dark Sky Complication now updates regularly and more frequently compared to Carrot Weather.
 
mrwilly25 said:
The old Dark Sky sucked, especially with the Complication on the Apple Watch. For me, the new rewritten Dark Sky replaces Carrot Weather, the Dark Sky Complication now updates regularly and more frequently compared to Carrot Weather.
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If you have Carrot Weather configured correctly with your Phone, it should stay updated all the time.
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
If you have Carrot Weather configured correctly with your Phone, it should stay updated all the time.
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I do have Carrot Weather configured properly, the location name updates like it's suppose to, but the weather data doesn't update with the location and takes another good 30-40 minutes to update.
 
Darn. I know Dark Sky is all about the rain, but I really liked the "stark black-and-white glyphs", and the general plain aesthetic. Now it looks pretty boring, generic.

The other thing I like most is the layout of temps for the upcoming week. That's still there, but now you need to scroll down to see them. Before, you could swipe left - that's easier - one swipe always got you exactly there. Now you scroll and have to make it stop at the correct spot. Not a big deal of course, but when you're talking UI, little things are everything.

Also much preferred swiping with the Watch app to get to the extended forecast, where now you also have to scroll, quite a bit.

I still like Dark Sky, but these changes don't suit my use.
 
nutmac said:
I am okay with generic UI, but I find both Carrot Weather and Dark Sky's UI to be tedious.

I want my weather app to require a minimum fuss for doing things like:
  • Getting hourly forecast
  • Getting current weather detail
  • Getting daily forecast with precipitation and wind information.
  • Switching to different city
While Carrot Weather is fun, it requires a lot of scrolling and the UI is not always responsive (e.g., tapping on the current temperature to look at more information takes several seconds).

While imperfect in many regards, Hello Weather meets my need the best.
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Thanks for making this post. I have been looking for a simplified, easier-to-see at a glance weather app. I downloaded Hello Weather and I really love the clean, informative interface. I also downloaded 1Weather, but the font choice and all the menus just take so focusing and reading to really get a feel for the weather. Hello Weather is superior to even WU to me, so thanks for my new app.
 
Oh no, no, no. Just no.

Went from one of the best examples of clean, sophisticated design to crap overnight. Honestly, is this a joke?

No.
 
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Oh no, no, no. Just no.

Went from one of the best examples of clean, sophisticated design to crap overnight. Honestly, is this a joke?

No.
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Try Hello Weather. Lol I’ve been reading every post in this thread and trying out the apps people have mentioned. If you take to clean and sophisticated design, you will probably enjoy Hello Weather. Dunno why it isn’t more popular.
 
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From what I remember carrot has monthly fees to get the same functionality as Dark sky gives for one price. I think it was something to do with the AW app having a large middle placement and notifications? Anyway, i like the one time purchase.
 
The Apple watch display now does not show UV index or wind speed and direction or sunset
ALL items that help before going out biking or running.

The iphone/ipad design looks good and does have the data I need.
 
Not a fan of the new look, but I will get over that. Worse than the new look is the accuracy. What once was a pretty accurate app has become pretty pathetic. Currently Dark Sky says is is lightly raining and will continue to do so for the next hour. Except that I am under completely sunny skies. Come on, man!
 
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The new look is terrible. It's like what happened to Skype! It should be easy as possible to see the rain forecast but now there are more taps introduced in the new design. Weather Pro has the best look of all the apps but no notifications. It overlays sunrise/set/rain and sun per hour in one easy to read screen.
 
Dark Sky has been working fine for me since iOS 12 went public. I do have an occasional hiccup on the watch where it displays the icon instead of the current temperature and conditions.

The notifications and weather conditions have been fairly accurate for me as well, though I have seen a website that indicates that Dark Sky is one of the more accurate ones for my area.
 
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