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I’ve used this app for years. I will have to check out the new iOS weather app. Honestly the Dark Sky rain predictions are usually wrong more often than not.
by hollywood_court 4y ago
I’ve used this app for years. I will have to check out the new iOS weather app.
Honestly the Dark Sky rain predictions are usually wrong more often than not.
I use it to monitor rain to keep my zoysia nice, but it has been disappointing me recently.
- CrazyStat 4y agoIt must vary by location. Dark Sky is usually right on point for me. I was pissed when they cut off Android support. I eventually got over it and subscribed on my iPad so I could continue using it, because nothing else I've tried comes close.
- nazgul17 4y agoCheck what their source is: surely, they don't compute the forecast themselves.
- junofan 4y agoThey do. That was the selling point.
- OGWhales 4y agoThe data is public and comes from NOAA but they are doing their own forecasting. Here is a blog post from one of the devs about their process (2011): http://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works/ http://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works/
- outworlder 4y agoFor me they were on point, sometimes down to the minute. That is, until Apple bought them.
- TimMeade 4y agoThe predictions used to be dead on. it was crazy weird how accurate. But shortly after apple purchased they started slipping. Now rarely accurate.
- lynndotpy 4y agoThis was my experience as well, but a confounding factor is they bought Dark Sky 2020-March-31, which coincided with a drastic change in how I used them. Before COVID / Apple's acquisition, I had a 10 minute bike ride from my place of work to where I lived. I could use the hyper-local predictions to stay out of the rain, and it almost never failed me. Either way, because the install base sensors powered predictions, I suspect the acquisition is what killed its utility. I can't count on the accuracy any more.