Grossman says the weather predictions all come from computers no meteorologists are involved. That work evolved into longer-term forecasting, and led to a separate product called Forecast. So the company had to build its own computer programs for figuring out radar data for that one example: Is it going to be raining an hour from now in this one, specific spot? No one was really doing that, said Adam Grossman, a co-creator of the Dark Sky app. That company formed about three years ago to create a new kind of forecast that would use radar data to predict whether it was going to rain - or stop raining - in an immediate location and within the next hour. For my taste, Weatherbug is the best app offered by the main providers, because it offers niceties like the ability to sort your forecast by whether it’s a good day for golf or one that is likely to cause dry skin.īut the folks behind Dark Sky, a popular and visually stunning weather app, are doing things a bit differently. The Weather Channel app, for example, offers useful information like airport conditions and flu outbreak updates by region, while Weather Underground has the richest (and geekiest) information. Those data and forecast providers all have their own apps as well. The Weather Channel provides Apple’s built-in forecasts, for example, while Weather Underground provides data for Google’s weather and powers Yahoo Weather. The data and forecasts created in that way power many weather apps.

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