Breezy weather (nonfree version) is really good, you get a lot of customization and several weather services
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weawow
It’s the best weather app I’ve ever used as I can choose details to see but above all you can choose the weather provider that gives you the most correct weather forecast for your location.
Agreed. I actually donated…
Been using this app for years now and i really like it. You can upload pictures and if they are approved, they will use it as the background of the app from time to time.
Also i want to say its a 2 man group, developing the app. Husband and wife. Husband works on the app while the wife approves the pictures / other stuff
Beauty! Just switched. The widgets are 10x better! Kind of why I use android to begin with. Can’t believe I tolerated that crappy default app for so long.
Just switched over to it, it’s great. Any suggestions for a similarly solid calendar app?
Are you looking for an actual calendar app or a widget? For a widget, I can highly recommend this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.mildev84.agendareminder
I also use this. I get my radar from windy.com, however.
I was going to suggest the same thing. I really like that the home screen widgets have several different versions to choose from.
breezy weather is great (and very aesthetically close to google’s weather app); a couple of providers you have to get a free api key for but it’s pretty straightforward. https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather
The only thing I dislike about breezy is that the weather alerts dont seem to show up in the app.
I like Breezy, and most of its functionality for most locations works without any API keys (i.e. there’s no setup fuss).
Setup fuss tends to scare a lot of people off.
oh yeah for sure i think the only ones i used a custom api key for is met and pirate weather
Crazy that you need an API key to access data from private entities for data that is publicly funded.
I love Breezy, so much I contribute to translating it as my coding skills are not very good. But I still think yr.no app is the best non open source app you can get.
There’s some good apps on F-Droid, like Breezy Weather or WeatherMaster. They mimic Google’s weather app.
A lot of the incorrect weather data comes from Open-Meteo. While it’s a great free service, if super accurate weather is important, then you are better off using a local weather service with their API. Apps like Breezy Weather, support this.
Can’t relate, the default weather app on my Pixel is great, and consistently accurate
That’s because, under the hood, almost all apps access a generic weather prediction model spit out by a supercomputer, and these models have “ruts” and gaps where their prediction is bad.
There are a few popular ones, like:
- GFS, an American prediction model. It’s notoriously hit-or-miss, with a common meme being “GFS is like a box of chocolates,” but free and predicts the whole globe, so it’s the default of many apps.
- ECWMF, the “Euro” model. Higher resolution, tends to be better (sometimes), but requires a subscription for access.
- Meteoblue, a newer machine-learning based one .
- Regional ones, like a Canadian one, Japan, higher-resolution Atlantic hurricane models, and so on.
It gets complicated.
Hence, the ideal situation is picking access to multiple models, and seeing what they predict and how they agree for yourself. Maybe the ECWMF has a bad season, so you switch to GFS, or maybe the Canadian model is better in your area; whatever the case, it actually lets you see the underlying source of the predictions.
This is what the Windy app does. It has mobile apps, but it’s also a generic web app:
One caveat: if you’re just looking for “what’s it like right now, or in the next hour?” in a well populated area, sometimes Weather Underground or Weatherbug will outperform other apps because of the sheer locality of their stations. Nothing beats two weather stations half a mile from you.
But this isn’t so great for looking hours or days ahead. You want wide access to a supercomputer model for that, ideally interpreted by a real meteorologist who specializes in your area and overlays their own predictions on top.
In fact, I tend to look at my local news apps when a prediction is really important, as they know what they are talking about.
Source: when I moved to Florida and experienced hurricanes up close, I got really into DIY weather.
Model picking is the way. These are data sources professional meteorologists use.
There are also more “raw” sources of these models (like TropicalTidbits), but Windy is an excellent and accessible one.
Seems pretty good from my use. Is this the same as trashing the TV weather man because they’re always wrong? Try another channel.
The most annoying thing about the default weather app on my Zenfone is whenever there is ANYTHING out of the typical, it says “health warning” instead of the temperature. I have to tap on the widget to open the app to see the actual temperature. I live somewhere where the air quality fluctuates a lotso I am often annoyed at the first world problem.
Looks like this thread will be how I finally replace my default.
