Weather 4+

Apple have done a reasonable job of integrating Dark Sky, however by focusing on making the graphs look pretty they have fallen short of the mark of surfacing data in a simple, practical and user friendly way [come on Apple, laurels are slipping] Suggestions Detailed Daily view : The aesthetic of the little chart is quite pleasing and I do like the graphic for precipitation. What would make it really cool and improve on Dark Sky is if the user could choose a secondary access, essentially being able to chart temperature and precipitation on the same chart (or any combination of 2 features) Detailed day view,: instead of squeezing all data onto a tiny grid and have the user use hold to find a specific hour- use a bigger grid and make it scroll , or even zoom. Map view looks so much less convincing than dark sky. Surely this could be brought up to the same quality ? Add alerts I never really used it much in Dark Sky, but Time Machine was fun. Any chance of some of the above features or not all ?

Dear Apple. You have gone backwards with your incorporation of Dark Sky into this weather app. The whole point of integration and development is to make things better and not worse; you have made it significantly worse. I don’t care about the user interface I just want it to work as well as the Dark Sky app. I have noticed that Dark Sky is by far the best real time rain predictor/actual app. Your new weather app is mostly inaccurate and does not produce the ‘hyper local’ function that Dark Sky was so good at. I have been checking the Dark Sky vs Apple predictions and you are not even close. I can tell if it’s actually raining because water is falling from the sky, Dark Sky seems to get this right. Your app will tell me it’s raining when it’s not, predict rain when it doesn’t happen and predict no rain when it is actually raining. The timings are never correct (unless by chance every now and then). The rain radar is jerky and not correct either, the predicted shifts in clouds defying the laws of physics. You should either up your game and get Dark Sky to tell you how it’s done or just keep Dark Sky functioning (I seem to remember paying for it a while back). I am entirely sure that you will ignore this problem and leave it as it, is as you are Apple and don’t listen to your customers.

I loved Dark Sky, it did what it said it would do, simply, no fuss, and quickly. So imagine one day at Apple HQ a bunch of data guys gathered around the round.. y’all know that Dark Sky App we bought back in the day, we should take the phenomenal ease of working out if it will rain when you take the dogs for a walk and then go further because y’all need to know the barometric pressure, the UV status at 6am in the dark, which way the wind will blow so you can wear a scarf on that side of your face and then bring it together in a un-user friendly way that screams PowerBi and let you faff around for 20 minutes to figure out if it will rain/snow and not give you any easy option to view the data without the bells and whistles, hey, we should make it more data heavy than needed and definitely don’t give an option just to see a will it rain in the next hour page without participating in a puzzle to work out the icons. Don’t get me wrong, if I was a weather forecaster on TV or a data scientist, I’d be all over this. As it is, I just need a way of getting to the hardcore data that says, in 10 minutes you’ll need a big coat. Please, just give us the option for a Dark Skies simple interface.