iOS for iPad does not even have a native weather app.
A native weather app could be integrated with iCal, and Apple maps. Apple could even make it seamless across their various devices: iPhone, iPad, OSX, and Apple Watch.
I hope it is on their 2018 list of good intentions …
Carrot as a "large" complication on the watch face. Allows me to see the current real temperature with DarkSky and the "Feels like" temperature from Carrot along with a textual readout of what's going to happen from Carrot...
Is that with the free version of Carrot, or is a subscription needed for that?
Accuweather? The same app that might have violated Apple’s guidelines due to collecting user data even when users specifically block it from doing this?
And yeah I always wondered why the iPad has never had the Weather app.
At one time it never had the usual iOS Calculator, Clock (put back in iOS 6), Compass, Stocks & Voice Memos apps either but this could have changed in the last few years.
iOS for iPad does not even have a native weather app.
A native weather app could be integrated with iCal, and Apple maps. Apple could even make it seamless across their various devices: iPhone, iPad, OSX, and Apple Watch.
I hope it is on their 2018 list of good intentions …
>:x
Never understood why the native app was not available for iPad too. Also, there is a dedicated Weather Channel app for iPad.
I like RadarCast...gives realtime and 1 hour look ahead. Works well for Bay Area, CA. I use it with Dark Sky. The globe view of Dark Sky is also cool
I am sorry, the Bay Area does not have weather in the full sense of that word. I lived out their for a number of years and I can count on one hand how many times the weather conditions in the Bay area affected what I did on any given day. The Bay Area weather is fairly mundane not sure why an apps is needed. I use to travel around the area and always had various layers of cloths in the car, since anyone who lives in the Bay Area knows, if you go from San Jose in the 80's and end up in SF it could be cold and damp. Beyond the micro climate changes the weather is very consistent.
iOS for iPad does not even have a native weather app.
A native weather app could be integrated with iCal, and Apple maps. Apple could even make it seamless across their various devices: iPhone, iPad, OSX, and Apple Watch.
I hope it is on their 2018 list of good intentions …
>:x
Never understood why the native app was not available for iPad too. Also, there is a dedicated Weather Channel app for iPad.
Apparently Apple believes that people with iPads don't go outside. /s
I have not used many weather apps, but they all seem to have similar flaws since many are using the same databases for their information especially when you look a radar or Doppler Radar. Over the past 10 yrs I have seen the Doppler information being less accurate, I am not sure if they are using different algorithms but I can not tell you how many time I am at a location and it is either raining/snowing or not raining/snowing and the radar image in these apps are wrong.
For this storm last night the Doppler Radar show it was snowing at my locations for hours prior to it actually snowing. I am not sure about you but not sure how they get the actual data wrong, I get trying the forecast the future, but when the app can not even tall me at this moment in time it raining or not is nuts.
The other issue I have seen with these apps is the forecast, and I am talking about the next 12 hours, they will say the X% chance of rain at a give set of hours and you check and hour later and now it say no change of rain and then flip back again. The forecasts flip back and forth all the time.
I think these apps are trying to do some sort of real time data analysis and make a prediction, and this does it over an over again it each time it has different outcome and you see this as the app update each time.
Hey, I'm in the middle of New England where Noreaster' means something and this storm is nothing, except for the higher speed wind gusts. We've had far worse than this. The amount of snow may vary from 7"-12" which is nothing compared to the 42" we had a few years ago in a single storm. Or the multiple foot storms back to back to back where you ended up with 10' high snow banks on the side of your driveway. Breaking your back as you grunt, "Global Warming, Ha!".
Pfffttt, maybe it's something for South Carolina to complain about but it's nothing compared to a real Noreaster' in the North East! Boston appears to be getting slammed but hey, they are used to it. Nothing new about a heavy winter storm.
Dark Sky is where it's at. I can't tell you how many times it's saved my butt with an alert popping up on my iPhone or Watch saying "Rain starting in 10 minutes", giving me a chance to scramble outside and close my car windows or put stuff away before it got rain-damaged.
My go-to app for bad weather is Storm by WeatherUnderground. Lots of map layers are available with storm tracks, wind animations, and quite a few others.
There is another app, Storm Radar by the Weather Channel, that has an almost identical app icon. They are obviously related but I find the main Storm app to be more useful.
Hey, I'm in the middle of New England where Noreaster' means something and this storm is nothing, except for the higher speed wind gusts. We've had far worse than this. The amount of snow may vary from 7"-12" which is nothing compared to the 42" we had a few years ago in a single storm. Or the multiple foot storms back to back to back where you ended up with 10' high snow banks on the side of your driveway. Breaking your back as you grunt, "Global Warming, Ha!".
Pfffttt, maybe it's something for South Carolina to complain about but it's nothing compared to a real Noreaster' in the North East! Boston appears to be getting slammed but hey, they are used to it. Nothing new about a heavy winter storm.
I agree 100%! We used to just have “storms”, but now they have to have dramatic labels to scare the crap out of people. The best thing to do is avoid mainstream media and look outside at one’s local weather. That’s a darned good way to live if you ask me.
Dark Sky is where it's at. I can't tell you how many times it's saved my butt with an alert popping up on my iPhone or Watch saying "Rain starting in 10 minutes", giving me a chance to scramble outside and close my car windows or put stuff away before it got rain-damaged.
I like DS too but plenty of other times it said no rain for 40 mins, I walk the dog and...rain. Grr. Also amusing that as that rain is falling it still tells me no rain.
I’m surprised Accuweather hasn’t been booted from the App Store for their massive data collection and privacy violations. Their software isn’t allowed anywhere near my device.
I’m a big fan of Weatherline - it gets its source data from more than one place and, for me at least, has been the most accurate app for forecasting the next few days of weather. Not an easy job in Scotland.
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A native weather app could be integrated with iCal, and Apple maps. Apple could even make it seamless across their various devices: iPhone, iPad, OSX, and Apple Watch.
I hope it is on their 2018 list of good intentions …
>:x
And yeah I always wondered why the iPad has never had the Weather app.
At one time it never had the usual iOS Calculator, Clock (put back in iOS 6), Compass, Stocks & Voice Memos apps either but this could have changed in the last few years.
Also, there is a dedicated Weather Channel app for iPad.
I am sorry, the Bay Area does not have weather in the full sense of that word. I lived out their for a number of years and I can count on one hand how many times the weather conditions in the Bay area affected what I did on any given day. The Bay Area weather is fairly mundane not sure why an apps is needed. I use to travel around the area and always had various layers of cloths in the car, since anyone who lives in the Bay Area knows, if you go from San Jose in the 80's and end up in SF it could be cold and damp. Beyond the micro climate changes the weather is very consistent.
I have not used many weather apps, but they all seem to have similar flaws since many are using the same databases for their information especially when you look a radar or Doppler Radar. Over the past 10 yrs I have seen the Doppler information being less accurate, I am not sure if they are using different algorithms but I can not tell you how many time I am at a location and it is either raining/snowing or not raining/snowing and the radar image in these apps are wrong.
For this storm last night the Doppler Radar show it was snowing at my locations for hours prior to it actually snowing. I am not sure about you but not sure how they get the actual data wrong, I get trying the forecast the future, but when the app can not even tall me at this moment in time it raining or not is nuts.
The other issue I have seen with these apps is the forecast, and I am talking about the next 12 hours, they will say the X% chance of rain at a give set of hours and you check and hour later and now it say no change of rain and then flip back again. The forecasts flip back and forth all the time.
I think these apps are trying to do some sort of real time data analysis and make a prediction, and this does it over an over again it each time it has different outcome and you see this as the app update each time.
Pfffttt, maybe it's something for South Carolina to complain about but it's nothing compared to a real Noreaster' in the North East! Boston appears to be getting slammed but hey, they are used to it. Nothing new about a heavy winter storm.
There is another app, Storm Radar by the Weather Channel, that has an almost identical app icon. They are obviously related but I find the main Storm app to be more useful.
I’m a big fan of Weatherline - it gets its source data from more than one place and, for me at least, has been the most accurate app for forecasting the next few days of weather. Not an easy job in Scotland.