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Re:Apple Shutting Down Popular Weather App 'Dark Sky' Tomorrow by arjvik on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:41PM (#34198683)
How accurate is PirateWeather? I see it uses NOAA data.

I've been relying on AccuWeather as of late, and it's been pretty reliable.

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Re:Apple Shutting Down Popular Weather App 'Dark Sky' Tomorrow by phpisthebest on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:50PM (#34199428)
I switched to Accuweather after IBM ruined WeatherUnderground App. Still not as good as the old Wunderground app but it is 90-95% what I liked about the WU
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Re:Apple Shutting Down Popular Weather App 'Dark Sky' Tomorrow by smegsicle on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:37PM (#34199887)
accuweather sells geolocation data

third party weather sites/apps seem to be pretty scammy in general

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Re:Apple Shutting Down Popular Weather App 'Dark Sky' Tomorrow by guillohm on Sunday January 01, 2023 @10:20AM (#34206956)
If you're interested in learning more about the pirateweather data sources and process, you can check out this article which goes into great detail.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/making-weather-for...

I'm relying on it in Canada now so I can certainly vouch for it in my area. We had a snowstorm and power outages during holidays and it was great to follow the graphs with regards to wind/gust and precipitations.

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