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by rateofclimb 1742 days ago
Great to see some love for Forecast Discussions! As a pilot, and overall outdoor enthusiast I've relied on Forecast Discussions for many years. If I may be so bold, my app Deep Weather for iOS is designed to be the most convenient and easy-to-read source for Forecast Discussions. It's free (with some more advanced/optional features requiring a subscription): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deep-weather/id528748182
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kortilla 1742 days ago
“Straight from the experts at NOAA”... but through a platform/app not affiliated with them in any way.

I find apps that use that kind of marketing to make it sound like they are associated with the big agency they yank the data from to be really sleazy.

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amrangaye 1742 days ago
I don’t see the problem - I didn’t read it as “we have NOAA experts working for us” but as “we are sharing data from the experts at…”. I think sleazy is… unkind - especially reaching that conclusion from just one line in a description.
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baxtr 1742 days ago
Not available in Europe! Too bad
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rateofclimb 1742 days ago
Yes I'm sorry, Area Forecast Discussions are a product of NOAA/National Weather Service in the United States and its territories. They do cover a lot of ground from Guam to Puerto Rico, the continental US and Alaska, but not Europe.
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benhurmarcel 1739 days ago
That’s not really a reason to restrict its installation to users that have a US iCloud account only. People travel, move, or have interests in other areas than their home country.
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derekja 1741 days ago
nice app! I seem to have gotten myself stuck, though. In weather graphics I opened up day 4 fronts and now I can zoom around on it but there is no way to close it and the rest of the app is blocked!

Anyway, just a small bug report. Thanks for the app, useful enough to keep it installed!

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