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Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (... by wlesieutre on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:49AM (#41110372)
The first year of the new weather app they didn't even give you hourly precipitation chance throughout the day. If I had to pick what were the two key features of Dark Sky it would be 1) impending rain notifications, and 2) hourly precipitation chances.

It's included now, but you have to dig it out and it's still not as good.

For an app not trying to reproduce Dark Sky, but doing a nice job with an overview of the day's weather, I've been using Overlook. But now I'm seeing that its app store listing is gone. https://apps.apple.com/app/overlook-weather/id1639571738

Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (... by user3939382 on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @12:40PM (#41111133)
I’ve been using Carrot. Okay but also not as good.
Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (... by baggachipz on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @01:07PM (#41111532)
Plus a very expensive (relatively) subscription. I loved Dark Sky because I bought it and then I had it.
Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (... by krger on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:31PM (#41112561)
>Plus a very expensive (relatively) subscription. I loved Dark Sky because I bought it and then I had it.

Ongoing customer value (hyper-local precipitation forecasts) that has ongoing costs for the developer (weather data) is unsustainable without ongoing revenue (subscriptions). This may have had a thing or two to do with Dark Sky ending in an acquihire.

Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (... by mbirth on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @08:40PM (#41115491)
There’s RainAlarm which achieves a similar feature by downloading (freely available) radar imagery and notifying you when the rain echoes are nearby. Worked pretty well when I used this a few years ago. (I’ve now moved to a country where Apple’s rain warnings are pretty accurate.)

https://rain-alarm.com

Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (... by shagie on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:48PM (#41112789)
I'm fond of MyRadar. https://myradar.com

While the radar view is nice, the outlook view is very nice.

From a screen shot of the screen shot in the App Store: https://imgur.com/a/U8o1DJw and my own outlook

The 'ring' data view at the top (and bottom of the second image) is a nice way to represent the data in a limited amount of space (phone / watch widgets).

Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (... by wlesieutre on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:57PM (#41112883)
I do hate this about so many weather apps:

> Data Used to Track You

> The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

> Location

> Identifiers

> Usage Data

Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (... by withzombies on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @01:07PM (#41111534)
Carrot added a linear forecast view, which is very close to the Dark Sky interface and it's been great.
Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (... by caseyohara on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @06:24PM (#41114730)
> linear forecast view

Which view do you mean? I was a longtime Dark Sky user, and now I switch between Carrot and Apple Weather.