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While forecast.io has been available worldwide and Android apps have been making liberal use of its API, the Dark Sky iOS app isn't available outside select cou
by lloeki 10y ago
While forecast.io has been available worldwide and Android apps have been making liberal use of its API, the Dark Sky iOS app isn't available outside select countries:
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- alexhawdon 10y agoI believe that's because their original focus, and still the primary focus of the mobile app, is 'hyperlocal', near-term precipitation prediction. To do this they require access to high-resolution (spatial and temporal) rain radar data, which isn't universally available. (In the USA this is provided by the NOAA, in the UK by the Met Office.)
- clashmoore 10y agoHyperlocal because it also uses the data from many small private weather stations around the US. So many times the data you're seeing is from a weather station in a neighbors yard around the block.
- blfr 10y agoIs the Android app available worldwide? I can't install it in Poland.
- lloeki 10y agoI'm talking about third party ones such as Weather Timeline (the official one is quite recent). [0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston.weather https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....