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These days my go-to example of "you cannot bet on having access to better technology as time progresses" is "I used to have an app on my phone that could predict the next hour of weather with startling accuracy and that is no longer an option"

(I am talking about Dark Sky)

Edited to add: I only want to hear suggestions for services/sites/apps if they offer the same ~10min interval microforecasts for the upcoming hour that Dark Sky used to, because that is the thing I am lamenting

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Nelson Minar

@darius I'm sad about that too. Android completely shut out by monopolistic behavior. I gather the Apple app isn't as good as Dark Sky, either.

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thebishopgame

@darius Actually, Dark Sky wasn't very good at predicting the weather and it had a really weird method for trying to do so. It literally did everything via image analysis and completely ignored everything we know about weather science. slate.com/technology/2022/12/d

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Coral

@darius I use iOS and I’m still annoyed wrt the apple acquisition

It’s folded into the weather app now, and does get next-hour just as well, but the rain graph has completely gone :(

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Craig P

@darius We used to really liked predictive and historical weather, but now it's all garbage. Expensive garbage.

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oddletters

@darius continually low key mad about Dark Sky

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@darius if i travelled back in time and explained to myself in 2011 the fragmented chat landscape i experience in 2023 i wouldn’t have believed it

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SlightlyCyberpunk

@darius Wunderground is always spot-on for me...which is weird since I think they're owned by Weather Channel which is garbage...

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elle mundy

@darius i’ve been using @CARROT lately and it’s better than dark sky ever was meetcarrot.com/weather/

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick

@darius Argh, weather apps. :( We are on the front end of an ice storm right now, and for the last several days the NWS warnings have predicted ice accumulations of “up to one half an inch," plus snow/sleet of “up to one inch.” At the same time, Weather Underground has been predicting 4-5 inches of snow. And Apple's Weatherkit has been (and still is) predicting 12-15 inches of wintry mix. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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inhuman resource

@darius I'm remembering when back in 2011 google maps had realtime transit navigation that knew the stops and where you were on the line and notified you when you were getting close to your stop and they just dropped all that entirely for 6 or 7 years and it was worse than before for a while after it came back - It was fine last I checked but I haven't used it for a bit and I'd assume it's still there but I've been wrong about exactly that before so 🤷

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James :ruby: :indieweb:

@darius Have you seen merrysky.net/ based on pirateweather.net/

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NowWeAreAllTom

@darius Apple swears that all I need to do is switch to Apple Weather because the Dark Sky technology has been fully integrated into it now

I'm like... okay but I didn't use Dark Sky for the technology. I used it for the 10 minute forecast magic trick

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Beth

@darius My household was so irritated when we knew it was going away. I used it to the very last second. Nothing compares so far.

RIP, Dark Sky. You kept us dry, warm, cool, and prepared.

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railmeat

@darius
Dark Sky was the best, I miss it.

I don’t know why they could not maintain it or do something as good. This seems to be a recurring theme.

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Lars Lehtonen

@darius No app needed. forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.

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