Weather 4+

I always use this app because me and my family are always going somewhere and we need the weather to tell us how hot or cold it is going to be so we know what to where and pack but I can’t look at the weather in a time schedule and tell everyone the weather if it loads for five minutes every time. Even if I have all my bars (4) it still takes forever to load and it is kinda annoying. When we were going up north we alway stay there for about a week and we have to leave at a certain time or we don’t get there until late because it is a long twelve hour drive and we also have seven kids and when we need the weather I can’t tell them unless I have my phone on for five minutes with doing nothing on it and I need my phone for important things not saying that the weather isn’t important but I still can’t just have it open on the weather app when I need to do other things on my phone. Also if is not always correct. I was playing with my baby sister outside and it said that it wasn’t supposed to rain and it did it STORMED and she got soaked because we live on a big property and I looked at it five minutes after it was done storming and it said that it was still raining for about another two hours and it wasn’t even raining. I absolutely love this app but it has flaws.

Raising my rating after updating to ios16 and seeing the Weather app is finally showing some evidence that they’re at least trying to incorporate Dark Sky features. Glad to see that it finally has multiple days of hourly forecast available. It still misses the mark in a big way for me. My biggest gripe is hourly forecast for Dew Point being buried in the “humidity” graph. Dew Point is the best way I’ve found to tell how “muggy” it will feel. Relative Humidity doesn’t give any such indication and is a meaningless stat on its own. For example right now the relative humidity is 80% but dew point is in the 30’s and it feels great outside, not muggy at all. On the hourly Humidity graph, it only graphs relative humidity, I have to scroll through each hour one at a time to see the forecasts for dew point. I travel a lot to un-air conditioned warehouses in the south/gulf region and dew point forecasts in Dark Sky have been my go-to for knowing how to dress and plan for the day. If it's 100 degrees with a dew point in the low 40's I know it will feel cooler in the the shade/in the warehouse, if it's 100 degrees with a 70+ dew point I know it will be like a convection oven, even in the shade with a fan blowing. I would prefer a tabular view of this data like Dark Sky had… at the very least give Dew Point it’s own graph please. Happy to at least see the data in there, but I continue to prefer Dark Sky.

For DECADES weathermen have accurately predicted weather for the next 5 days on the news. Not down to the time of rain, but at least if it was going to rain or not. But the last couple years this app has failed at predicting what the weather will be just the next day. I planned a kayaking trip on a cloudy day, forecast said no chance of rain until the next day. We get out to the middle of the lake and here thunder and lighting isn’t and immediately begins to downpour. I check the weather on my phone to see if it had changed, and what do you know, it still says it is CURRENTLY partly cloudy with no chance of rain until the next day, no thunderstorms, nothing. This was just the final straw that made me write this review. I have noticed this all summer long, the forecast shows the next day will be 85 and sunny with no chance of rain, and the next day comes and it is cloudy and rains. It feels like I’m looking at the weather for a completely different area (I'm not, I’ve reset my location multiple times). I am not sure what system or company Apple uses to get their weather from, but I think it’s time for a change. For the time being I will hope that other weather apps can acutely predict the weather that is currently happening before my very eyes at least.