[deveac]

As a motorcycle rider and someone who goes top-down in my Jeep all summer, the real-time incoming rain alerts of DS were freakishly accurate and I leaned on them constantly. Apple integrated the feature and they became comically inaccurate. (The opposite of an accurate rain forecast is not great.) After getting soaked one too many times, I finally got frustrated enough to chase down the best replacement. Don't love Carrot Weather near as much, but it is the best alternative I've found for heads up on incoming precipitation. Sigh. I still remember the days of getting a "moderate rain starting in 13 minutes" alert and hoping on the bike and zipping home in time. Don't know how they did it so well.

[lynndotpy]

This was almost my experience exactly. I used DarkSky as a grad student with a twenty minute bike commute and responsibilities all over a large campus. Without fail, DarkSky kept me dry. (Or, at least allowed me to avoid the worst of it.)

[macintux]

As a fellow naked-Jeep-fan, I've been perplexed and depressed by Apple's handling of it. A couple of weeks ago, we had a thunderstorm roll through, which dropped the local temperature by ~15 degrees F, but my Apple devices kept insisting the current weather was 90º. Maddening.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Apple integrated the feature and they became comically inaccurate

Any clue why? Did broadening the pool of reporting devices from Dark Sky users to the general iPhone population somehow break their models?

[lynndotpy]

It limited it-- DarkSky was on Android and iOS before Apple killed the service.

But IIRC, DarkSky stopped using phones altogether some time before Apple killed the service. I can't find a source on that given Apple also deleted DarkSky's blog, so, grain of salt.