Best Weather App/ (3 Viewers)

[Klimtology]

Please Help.

 

[AAABatteries]

I’m not officially old yet so don’t pay real close attention to the weather but for daily stuff I just use the Apple weather app. If I need to pay attention to storms I’ll bring up the Weather channel app.

 

[sho nuff]

For customizable warnings (like you only want the thing to go off and wake you up if its a tornado warning), I like Storm Watch+. Its a small fee for the customizable stuff...but worth it to me.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I usually open the door and look outside.

 

[Joe Bryant]

I like Accuweather as it gives a next 2 hours graphic I find useful and accurate.

 

[belljr]

I think weather channel app has the best radar. But I don't use it as often as I used too

 

[3C's]

Depends on what you're looking for I suppose. MyRadar is a good (simple) radar/weather forecast app. RadarScope (paid version) is a far more advanced radar app where a trained eye can spot tornadoes. Weatherbug has the "spark" (lightning) add-on which is pretty nice if you're outside and a storm is around. I was working an outdoor concert recently and between Weatherbug (lightning) and Radarscope I could tell that a storm cell was going to just miss us. Weather channel I'm sure is good and used by many.

 

[The General]

I’m not officially old yet so don’t pay real close attention to the weather but for daily stuff I just use the Apple weather app. If I need to pay attention to storms I’ll bring up the Weather channel app.

Yep. They bought some company I believe in the past year or so and folded in all their tech into the iPhone native app.

All the info you could need are now in there. Radar, air quality, wind, UV, etc…

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I use weather underground but it doesn’t have future radar which kind of sucks

 

[Keerock]

I’m not officially old yet so don’t pay real close attention to the weather but for daily stuff I just use the Apple weather app. If I need to pay attention to storms I’ll bring up the Weather channel app.

This.

 

[The General]

Pick up golfing in a rainy climate and you become a weather nerd. I’m looking at barometric pressure charts and wind sheer.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

My Radar

I mostly use it to see how much rain is coming our way.

It’s probably the only app I’ve ever considered buying. I’ve been using it for more than a decade for free.

 

[Runkle]

I think it's accuweather for me if you mean an actual weather "app" like for a phone, but, I use openweathermap for my home automation/data/API calls. At least for now, the 3.0 API might induce me to switch to pirateweather or another API.

 

[Wildcat]

I prefer the radar from Storm Radar: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/storm-radar-weather-tracker/id1216396545

 

[Major]

Do any of these apps give you the weather for your neighborhood or exact zip? Lots of them will let you input your zip code but only give you the weather for the entire city. For a sprawling metropolis like Houston, I don't care if it's raining an hour north of me.

 

[belljr]

Yes weather channel is by zip or city

 

[titusbramble]

Please Help.

Look out of window, see if it's raining?

 

[beer 30]

I've always used Weather Channel app. I recently put Ventusky on my phone to track hurricanes but can't figure out how so will probably ditch.

 

[Major]

Yes weather channel is by zip or city

Nope. You enter your zip code and it gives you the weather for the entire city. All city zips give the same report from my experience.

 

[belljr]

Yes weather channel is by zip or city

Nope. You enter your zip code and it gives you the weather for the entire city. All city zips give the same report from my experience.

If you enter different zips it moves the dot location

 

[Major]

Yes weather channel is by zip or city

Nope. You enter your zip code and it gives you the weather for the entire city. All city zips give the same report from my experience.

If you enter different zips it moves the dot location

Gotcha. I'm reading the hourly report, not looking at the map. I really just care if it's going to rain during my workouts outside.

 

[Bozeman Bruiser]

I used My Radar for years as it was the best free app and had awesome radar graphics and alerts.

Once I found out they are really just an app whose main purpose is to sell your personal data to data brokers I said f that.

Now I use Breezy Weather app from F Droid Store. No data collection, pulls weather info from a variety of sources (I chose AccuWeather), has a nice minimalist design. Only drawback is no radar but I found a pretty sweet site for that, zoom.earth, and created a shortcut for my home screen.

If privacy is no concern I'd go with My Radar, if privacy is a concern and you are on Android then give Breezy a try, if you are on Apple it sounds like their native app is a winner.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

I know it's not people's top priority when selecting a weather app, but Accuweather is a pretty morally reprehensible company that would represent a lot of really bad changes to the weather industry if they end up getting their way.

 

[Rustoleum]

I use What The Forecast because weather generally makes me stabby.

 

[johnnycakes]

The Weather Underground, chief. The best. Yes, of course they have an app.

Local Weather Forecast, News and Conditions | Weather Underground

Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weather reports, maps & tropical weather conditions for locations worldwide

www.wunderground.com

 

[ChiefD]

The Weather Underground, chief. The best. Yes, of course they have an app.

Local Weather Forecast, News and Conditions | Weather Underground

Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weather reports, maps & tropical weather conditions for locations worldwide

www.wunderground.com

Agree. Use that one as well.

 

[culdeus]

Windy

 

[jhib]

I’m not officially old yet so don’t pay real close attention to the weather but for daily stuff I just use the Apple weather app. If I need to pay attention to storms I’ll bring up the Weather channel app.

They're calling it an atmospheric river