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I have enjoyed http://darkskyapp.com/ http://darkskyapp.com/ In my totally un-scientific opinion weather.com has slowly gotten worse over the past several year
by kator 12y ago
I have enjoyed http://darkskyapp.com/ http://darkskyapp.com/
In my totally un-scientific opinion weather.com has slowly gotten worse over the past several years. I think it's become a lot hard to monetize weather and the weather service has really stepped up the game on providing public outlets that are digestible by the general public.
My guess is in the early days what weather.com and the weather channel where really doing is translating the difficult to understand NWS messages and helping the general public quickly understand: "Do you I need a rain coat today?". That said over time as NWS has stepped up their public interfaces that value add is sliding backwards and getting harder to maintain.
That's my $0.02CPM worth.. :-)
- MBCook 12y agoI liked DarkSky too (I actually use Weather Line [1], which is powered by them, switched a while ago, better UI), but I've seen it take a noticeable dip in accuracy over the last 2 years or so. On PC I use they site Forecast.io. I could never use Weather.com or any of those other sites, too many ads and other junk making it hard to use. I want to know tomorrow's weather, not the pollen count forecast fort this summer. [1] http://weatherlineapp.com http://weatherlineapp.com
- kator 12y agoLooks interesting I'll check it out!