I think it’s cool that the creators of Dark Sjy are back at it, but I just can’t bring myself to pay a subscription fee for a weather app.
Seems to be North America only. 
EDIT - geography
$35 for the subscription in Canada
Same. I’m glad they’re back at the game but the weather app iOS is good enough for me. I do realize there are enough people fascinated with weather enough to pay and that’s cool.
I am already on the Carrot train…
I walk for exercise, weather permitting, and I try to avoid walking home in a downpour whenever possible 
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I’ll be subscribing IF Acme Weather’s precipitation forecast is as good as Dark Sky. The 2 week trial should be enough time to find out.
I’ve thought before that I’d like error ranges in weather graphs. Alternative predictions aren’t quite how I’d imagined it. Showing some detail/personality/confidence level for the alternative prediction lines might help. This might also be solved by time with the app to learn how surprising the weather turns out to be when predictions were divergent.
Cumulative precipitation could use another dimension to the data to show either soon-ness in the next 24 hours or how short of a time period is predicted to deliver most of the rainfall. That’s a hard data visualization problem. Maybe color shifting plus color saturation? It would add a lot to quick glances at the app.
The design and widgets are nice. Should scale well to iPadOS when they launch it. Rainbow notifications will be awesome if they can get them right. (Seems hard to get enough testing data on those.)
Disclaimers: I’m not serious about weather apps in general, and the obligatory “I loved Dark Sky back in the day.”
At least it’s upfront with that, literally not being available to download. Others will have awesome data for North America and maybe Europe and then they’ve paid someone 10c a month to provide crappy data for the rest of the world,
As ever, though, the US-centric tech press doesn’t even think about this aspect. I wouldn’t mind if they only tried to serve their ads to North America.
Isn’t it kind of sad that Apple bought Dark Sky and somehow removed their best feature, localized forecasts of rain? How did that happen? Was the local forecast not part of the purchase price? Not considered an important feature to port over?
Just a few days ago I left the house without an umbrella because the Apple Weather app said there was a 0% chance of precipitation. Then I go outside and it starts raining. I take out my phone and it is still saying a 0% chance of rain as the raindrops fall on my iPhone screen. If they just hedged their bets a little and said 20% chance of rain, but no they went with an ultra-confident 0%.
As I recall Dark Sky didn’t predict when precipitation would arrive, it analyzed radar data and calculated when rain would arrive at your location. I remember watching DK update the minute that rain would arrive as a storm approached.
According to some reports, Apple needed to use data sources other than the one DK used in order to handle their billions of users.
Dark Sky was really good, but they sold out to Apple leaving the users struggling. I don’t want to deal with these people again.
True. However I survived as I’m sure did most of the DS users. Business is business, and I have no idea if the DS team was making a ton of money or struggling themselves.
I do know that Apple is so focused on extracting additional revenue from its existing customers that they are now placing advertisements on our devices. In what was once free apps. If I can deal with Apple, I can deal with the acme weather team.
Windy for me. The most accurate weather app I’ve found. Not a fancy app, but as a weather nerd I appreciate lots of detail.
Katie
+1
I’ve been a subscriber for the last two or three years.
I’m a Hello Weather guy myself, but as an older individual who is long retired from their career of agriculture occupation where weather predication was more important to planning than… should I take an umbrella? In my field, we used to pay in the US major $$$ for weather dishes from sources like DTI to give us weather, and grain pricing updates. I thank all for the smiles that these posts bring me. If you want short term weather info, nothing beats looking up at the sky and learning what the sky tells you.
I learned to fly when I was a teenager. And my instructor, who was in his mid 60s, used to say something similar .
But did they alert you to rainbows???
(kidding)
Except when the sky you will be under in half an hour is not the same sky you are in now and there is a massive hill between the two places and other bits of geography significantly influence how the sky reacts in those two places.
If you live on the plains, sure. Ain’t no plains around here.