News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Acme Weather. Parent comment

Re:Acme Weather by ca6d8815 on Saturday February 21, 2026 @04:53AM (#47099164)
Try your local weather app. Here in Switzerland the MeteoSwiss app is absolutely wonderful, and has all these main features:

  - Uncertainty bands in the forecast (the bands are a better UX than more lines imo)
  - User-supplied reports
  - Many many many different maps (snow / cloud / wind / sunshine / air quality / etc)
  - Alerts (not notifications, but real alerts to watch out for something)
Plus many more other features. I found Yr in Norway also good (and on the web you also get uncertainty in the 21 day forecast https://www.yr.no/en/21-day-forecast/1-305409/Norway/Troms/T...).

Local weather services shouldn't be overlooked (and they're "free"... save for taxes!).

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Acme Weather by fastasucan on Saturday February 21, 2026 @07:44AM (#47100301)
Yes! They are much better. Yr has a great API as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Acme Weather by mr_mitm on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:33AM (#47099413)
WarnWetter for Germany. Costs a symbolic 1 Euro for dumb reasons, but I think it's easily worth it.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Acme Weather by k4rli on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:58AM (#47099560)
yr.no tends to be most accurate for Scandi+Baltics somehow pretty often.

Ventusky has the best app experience in Android with many different layers like wind, precipitation, air quality and many more. Can only recommend this as well.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Acme Weather by sschueller on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:10AM (#47102062)
In Switzerland all weather data is now also open and accessible via API. You can also use it for commercial purposes.

https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/services-and-publications/se...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Acme Weather by jwr on Saturday February 21, 2026 @12:35PM (#47102838)
I actually use (and pay a subscription for) Windy, which is local (EU) and has data from a multitude of providers (some of which aren't free).

My comment was a critique of a launching approach that I find annoying, because I would never dare to launch an app ignoring most of the world.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Acme Weather by ratrocket on Saturday February 21, 2026 @01:49PM (#47103495)
Is that the blue windy or the red windy? I can never keep them straight!
[ Parent | on HN ]