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And they also have a wonderful mobile weather app, also called "yr"!

• Nanite 4y ago
  Which, at least for the Oslo area, offers more reliable predictions than Apple's weather app (which is always weather.com, afaik) Having said that, and having the Norwegian Meteorological Institute down the road from where I live, their local predictions are often completely off on rain, to the point I always bring a raincoat when going out.
  • semi-extrinsic 4y ago
    For local rainfall predictions, the best solution is to look at the weather radar service they have.
  • kebman 4y ago
    I prefer the weather radar for that. Actual clouds and the live direction they're going in is a great predictor of rain. In fact I'd love to improve lightning detection by making a script that also takes into account wind direction, since lightning tends to travel with clouds. It could be as easy as using an ellipsis directed as a kind of weather vane, perhaps stretching out with wind speed. Currently I use a simple circular distance calculation to detect proximity.
• hggh 4y ago
  Beware, the Android version forces you to activate Google Play Services
• tomduncalf 4y ago
  Came here to say this, I love the app, it has the nicest UI of all the weather apps I’ve tried and seems fairly accurate. I was tipped off about it by friends in a ski resort who say it’s the most accurate for them in terms of predicting snowfall, bluebird days etc. Unfortunately it doesn’t give “next hour” precipitation info for the UK though so I use AccuWeather for this… but find Yr much clearer for longer range weather.