I’ll still probably keep a subscription to Carrot. I love the ability to tailor the app to my liking.
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iOS 16 Weather App Gets Significant Overhaul With Deeper Dark Sky Integration
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It would be nice if someone would post a deeper look into the weather notifications. I love Carrot’s thorough options for notifications and the ability to set them as critical.
Good point.
Like after a certain time? or if weather drops to 65F etc?
I did love those when I was a carrot user.
I'll keep carrot just for the snark. And seriously, I get most of my breaking news from Carrot.
I wonder why the detailed maps are limited to certain region. It says US, UK, … but I live on the mainland EU just on the border where they stop providing hourly updates on precipitation. A few km to the west it works just fine. Is it a licensing thing? Better radars?
I'm really excited for this—both the enhancements for the iPhone and the fact that it will be available on iPad and Mac too. I haven't found anything for Mac that does what I need and doesn't require some type of monthly rental fee.
I will probably still use SMHI (Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut)
They have a great website, that is usually extremely accurate. They have dissed the upgrading of the app though, but it still works. But website is great.
See how Apple will do comparing to our national service.
They have a great website, that is usually extremely accurate. They have dissed the upgrading of the app though, but it still works. But website is great.
See how Apple will do comparing to our national service.
But then why would anyone want to update? They do it to get people in the door.
I've personally enjoyed the weather app thus far. Its kinda neat seeing "rain starting in your area in 8 minutes" and then whadayaknow, it starts sprinkling in 8 minutes
I was just referring to severe alerts, but if Apple went even further like you mentioned that would be fantastic!
Move to Houston, TX. We have a saying here: "If you don't like the weather, just wait a minute."
The only problem is that the weather data in Apple weather is absolutely dreadful. At least here in the UK.
The Met Office is the gold standard and Apple really should use this for UK weather.
The Met Office is the gold standard and Apple really should use this for UK weather.
I hope they are planning on expanding their most advanced forecasts beyond what DarkSky supported (US/Canada + UK/Ireland).
True. But maybe it could be the API element and that they wouldn’t want to limit it in some way? I may be wrong
Regarding Deep Sky accuracy attributed to "aggregating weather data from a wide range of sources", if we knew what they utilized then we could discuss the "beyond" their current (US/Canada + UK/Ireland) limits.
I don't see what those sources are, anyone know?
The new app is built around a new iOS library, WeatherKit, which isn't available to previous versions of iOS. It also looks like it's using the new graphing library. WeatherKit is what will allow it to work on the other Apple platforms.
Dark Sky's API is also being retired soon, so older apps which rely on that will stop working over the next year.
Apple: “Earlier…versions? I don’t understand the question. There is only the current version. There is only now.”
Great. "Rain starting in 13 minutes." (Not 12 or 14)
<Looks outside> Not a cloud in the sky.
<Looks outside> Not a cloud in the sky.
It is taking a long time the update one single app. I would want to maximize my purchase as soon as I could, not wait years.
Will it allow me to customise the weather widget yet, to disable the next hour forecast in favour of always showing the hourly breakdown of the next 24 hours?
