I just upgraded to Android 14, and my AccuWeather app says it’s not compatible. Truth be told, I’m not sure it was compatible with the prior version, either, as it had a lot of incompatibly glitches.
So I’m looking for something new.
What i liked about the app was
It tended to be less alarmist (and more accurate) than many, although it’s accuracy has been slipping
It had nice summaries by day and by hourly forecast
It included sunrise and sunset
It had a nice 4x1 widget on my home screen that showed The forecast for a few days in a simple graphical way.
I’ve been using Shadow Weather since Dark Skies went away a few years ago.
It’s $5/year to get all of the features. There is an option to watch an ad video to get 24 hours of access, so you can try it for a few days before paying. It was created and is run by a guy, so I feel good my money is going to the person who did the work, instead of big weather.
I think it has all of the things you’re asking for. Here is a stack of 3 4x1 widgets I use. Hourly forecasts, then daily forecasts, then upcoming precipitation.
I just set a shortcut to the NWS site at mobile.weather.gov. Zero BS, zero alarmism, you can save favorite locations, etc. everything you could want to know about that location is one or two taps away.
I use Weather Underground. I think it hits all of your buttons. I like that it includes personal weather station data so you can get pretty granular instead of weather at the airport (or wherever).
I also use weather.gov on a browser, but I go about it in a slightly different way. I do a lot of backcountry hiking, so I want quick access to weather forecasts for many different specific locations other than towns. Weather.gov allows you to select a specific location either by name or by clicking on the map, and critically it tells you the exact ELEVATION that it’s forecasting. There may not be much difference in weather pattern for two points a few miles apart, but if the elevation difference is (say) the rim of the Grand Canyon vs the Colorado River, the temperature difference can be huge.
I have dozens of bookmarked urls like this set up on Chrome, Google syncs them to my phone, so I just pull up any location forecast I want on my phone’s browser from my bookmarks.
I would love an app that summarizes info from weather.gov, which is excellent. But i really want something that just shows me a temp and forecast on my home screen, not something i need to click through.
I have several weather apps and enjoy comparing their accuracy. I also like a few niche weather apps. Will It Rain just tells you if it will rain today and tomorrow. WTForecast has a WTF type comment on the day’s weather. Today’s said “Fuck, Just Fück. The end”. Most days are wittier.
I mostly use the NWS link that @LSLGuy describes, but I also have one called “Happy Weather” that lets you choose one of multiple weather models (eight or so I think, including Apple, Accuweather, and several others). That’s nice when the forecasts are all over the place- you can sort of crowdsource your own forecast by looking at all of them. It’s also got a rudimentary radar map that isn’t super detailed, but it’s fast to bring up.
I used to use Tomorrow.io and WeatherUnderground. The first was just cruddy, in that its customization options were not very granular, and the interface itself was not what I like. Also, it was really excited about sending me notifications. Weather Underground was good, but the app seems to have steadily got worse over time.
Still, 9 times out of 10, I use the NWS link. I do have the little Samsung and Google widgets on my home screen- the Google one shows the current temp, the high/low, and icons for the current weather and expected weather (a sun for sunny, a snowflake for snow, etc…) The Samsung one shows the time/date, and the current weather icon along with your current GPS location. Not terribly useful, but good enough if you are in a meeting and wonder if you need to take your coat to lunch or not.
The big issue is that there are a limited number of weather forecast APIs that app developers can choose from. Most of the “hyperlocal” ones use the Apple one that integrates Dark Skies’ functionality into it. But it kind of sucks in terms of actual forecasting, if Happy Weather’s Apple model forecasts are any indication.
