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I am a weather app junkie. Perhaps it is because I live in Colorado and the weather is unpredictable and can change in an instant. There have been days when it was snowing in the morning, sunny by lunch, and raining as I went to sleep. I have tried to use a lot of different apps but they either are beautiful and too simple or full of useful data and too cluttered. All of the apps I have found over the years can move over for my hands down new favorite called Dark Sky.
This app has been around for a while but their focus has always been on the weather you are currently in and not on the future forecast. Dark Sky has been updated to version 4.0 (free to existing customers) and has not only added a fairly extensive forecast, they have also added a beautiful map feature. It is more than these new additions that make this an app I am going to use, it’s the attention to detail and the overall design that won me over.
The main page tells me my current weather and cleverly tells me if it is in transition. My Current weather says Clear, 19 and rising. Feels like 12. Then it shows me my next hour of weather which is very useful information when making plans. Can I go for a run? Is it a good time to go run errands?
There is enough room to show me special warnings such as the ‘Winter Storm Watch for Jefferson County’ that is still in effect and a reference to the nearest storm which is 36 miles away. This is information that I feel is very useful and relavant to my daily life. I can also swipe up to see information about the next 24 hours and the coming week. The graphics are simple but informational and the presentation is clean and creative.
The maps are also pretty amazing. I’m not 100{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} sold on the color scheme, but the functionality is impressive. When zoomed out you see track weather on the entire globe for the past week and the temperatures for the coming week. When you zoom in you can track for the coming day. You can scroll and zoom using one or two fingers and the performance on my iPad Air is extremely smooth and enjoyable.
Are there things I didn’t like? Nope. This is now my go to app for weather and one that I will probably use far too often in the coming months.
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