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I am a long-ago purchaser of Dark Sky. I find I never use it on my iPhone. Carrot Weather is always superior in both the forecast and Radar. Dark Sky's "it will rain in 5 minutes" was hit or miss.

I live in the mountains, so perhaps, Dark Sky works well in a less difficult environment.

That said, if it disappears tomorrow, I won't miss it.

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Carrot is a great app. However, it's expensive and massively overkill for people living in the Bay Area. $40 a year for a warning the 10 times a year it rains is a bit much.

Still, until iPadOS 16 brought a native weather app, Carrot was the best alternative for using the same app across all my devices (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch). I'm glad the built in Weather app is sufficiently good that I can drop that subscription.

I want to like carrot, but agree it’s too expensive. I use apple weather/weather.gov and MyRadar.

MyRadar is the best weather radar app I’ve found and once little league season starts it’s an essential.

I sold so many copies of Dark Sky at Little League games. “Huh, it’s going to rain in 7 minutes.” “LOL, that’s awfully exact!” 6:45 later, it starts to sprinkle. “What was that called again?”

I hope Weather proves to be as reliable.

You made me question myself if we're looking at the same app... in the "Premium Club" section of the Android Carrot app, I'm reading "Three day free trial, 3.89€ per year after that." This unlocks the Widget, the time machine (past weather reports), removes ads, and saves a kitten. All good things!

You have to be on the "Premium Ultra" tier for rain, lightning, and storm notifications: http://support.meetcarrot.com/weather/

I used Dark Sky on iPhone until they redesigned the Weather app. Then the stock option became an immediate drop-in replacement.

I wish the API remained open so others can use it but as far as the app itself, it was never really that good.

Apple now offers a WeatherKit REST API

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi

I did not know that! Thanks!

It didn't occur to me until they were gone, but I wish I'd asked my roofers what they used. I had my roof replaced a couple years ago in early March. Here in the Puget Sound area by than the winter rain has fallen off, but February and March still average about 6 inches each, so the schedule was "we'll do it when it isn't going to rain".

I got a call one evening saying they'd be over at 8 AM the next day, unless forecasts changed before then. That surprised me because all my weather sources were saying there was a high chance of rain after noon.

They showed up at 8 AM and promptly got to work removing the old roof. I'd expected them to work in sections, taking off the old roof in a section and then putting the new on up to the waterproof underlayment. (The shingles were due to be delivered that evening, so would have to wait until the next day). That way if the rain came earlier than expected they would be able to waterproof whatever section they were on in time.

Nope. They took it all off. They were confident that whoever was doing their forecasting was right that they had enough time to get the whole thing waterproof before the rain started.

As they started putting on the new stuff the clouds were darkening and it sure looked to me like rain was imminent. But they just kept going at the same pace.

As they put the last of the waterproof lining on and started coming off the roof, it started pouring. They packed up, told me they would be back tomorrow at 8 AM to put on the shingles, and left.

> Carrot Weather

I don't know about the iOS app, but at least the Android version has a few trackers: https://i.imgur.com/qyRL4jf.png

From here: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.grailr....

I also second the recommendation for CARROT Weather [0]. I switched to it a few years ago from Dark Sky and never went back.

[0] http://meetcarrot.com/weather/

I'm picking up Carrot Weather now. Its "Editors' Choice" description says it draws data from Dark Sky, though?

Edit: disregard the source comment. It draws from multiple sources, like Foreca.

You can pick your data source from a list...it also has a nice function that will use your weather station for local conditions within a given radius. That said you need to use a specific brand of weather station for that to work.

Carrot just pushed an update that switches the Dark Sky source to Apple weather.

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