What are the best weather apps for iOS?

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9 Options Considered	Price	Last Updated
90 Dark Sky	$3.99	Jun 9, 2018
-- Yahoo Weather	-	Jun 16, 2018
-- Weather Underground	-	Mar 23, 2018
-- The Weather Channel [free]	-	Apr 7, 2018
-- Storm	Free	May 3, 2017

Dark Sky

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Eerily accurate weather predictions

Multiple reports suggest that Dark Sky has an uncanny precision in its ability to predict weather conditions. See More

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Rarely gives push notifications for severe weather, only precipitation

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Pinpoint location accuracy

The app adjusts information such as distance of a storm, time until it starts raining, etc, based on your location that it can estimate within a few meters of your exact location. See More

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Inaccurate temperatures

While the app's ability to predict weather conditions and when it will rain is on point, temperatures appear to be about 3-5 degrees warmer than what is actually recorded each day. See More

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Notifies before severe weather conditions

Dark Sky can tell you how many minutes you have before it starts raining, a snowstorm begins, etc. You adjust how many minutes beforehand it the app should send a push notification. See More

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Somewhat sluggish

Occasional loading screens make the app feel a bit laggy. See More

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24hour and 7day forecasts

Dark Sky has a graph of temperature changes for the next 24 hours along with precipitation information and when the sun rises and sets. It also gives quick access to day-by-day summary of the next week. See More

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3D radar map with weather information

With Dark Sky you can access a 3D Earth that offers information of precipitation and temperature. See More

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Quickly overview important information

With Dark Sky you can quickly get the most important predictions and current weather. The app shows information such as temperature (and how actually "feels" like and upcoming changes), humidity, wind, visibility, pressure, etc at a glance. See More

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Uncluttered UI

Dark Sky has a clean, monochromatic design that takes advantage of icons whenever possible. See More

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Yahoo Weather

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Balanced Notification Center widget

Current condition, current temperature, high and low, and the same for the upcoming night and morning. See More

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Nags about switching phone's search engine

The app will ask you whether you wish to switch your phone's search engine to Yahoo. See More

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Beautiful UI

The app uses beautiful, context and location-aware images as background to make it aesthetically pleasant and a joy to use. See More

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Lacks alerts for severe weather conditions

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Detailed, easy to overview, five-day forecasts

Yahoo Weather's main screen shows a enough information to get a good understanding of the upcoming weather without being too overwhelming. And it has radar, satellite and heat maps if you wish to get even more detailed information. See More

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Easy to use

The app is fast and easy to overview. It brings the important information to the front and offers intuitive ways of accessing more in-depth analysis. See More

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Has radar, satellite and heat maps

Weather Underground

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Crowdsourced data

Utilizes data from a Weather Underground weather station closest to your location See More

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Purchase through in-app-purchase is only good for a year

The app only allows the user access to the paid features for one year when purchased through an in-app-purchase. This can add up to an expensive app if used for many years. See More

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Accurate, detailed forecasts from crowdsourced data

Weather Underground crowdsources weather information. Anyone can set up a personal weather station and give that data to Weather Underground. A network of over 20.000 personal stations supplements roughly 10.000 National Weather Service stations. All collected data is run through a tool called BestForecasts that considers accuracy of 70 prediction models and creates a forecast from that process that's then presented to the end-user in a detailed way. See More

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Banner ads

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Simple, easy to read interface

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Occasionally awkward navigation

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Includes solar and lunar display

Indicates what time the sun will rise and set each day as well as the phase of the moon. See More

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Severe weather updates and alerts

The app has push alerts for both hazardous and non-hazardous events. It can warn of tornadoes, lightning, rain as well as rainbows. See More

The Weather Channel [free]

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Location-aware weather information

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Ads

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Severe weather alerts

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Hourly, 36hour and 10day forecasts

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Video updates

Storm

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Shows trend lines for conditions such as Humidity, Visibility, and Pressure

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Ad-supported

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Historical temperatures

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Pulls data from Weather Underground weather stations

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Notifications based on storm proximity

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AccuWeather [free]

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Secretely logs and shares private location information

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Offers a 2-hour forecast specifically for you

AccuWeather will when stuff like rain or snow start or stop in your current location. See More

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Information could be displayed in a more simpler manner

Information can be displayed in a much more simple and streamlined format. While the graphical features are very cool and attract the eye, the app can also be visually distracting for someone who just wants the weather information conveyed to them as efficiently as possible. See More

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Radar maps

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No way to hide or rearrange elements

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Clean design

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25-day forecast (paid)

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Daily forecasts

Weather Line

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Dark Sky precipitation forecast for upcoming hour

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Best visualization of multiple data points at once

Changes in conditions via icons, changes in temperature over time via graph/numbers. See More

Solar [free]

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Minimalistic, vibrant UI with only the most important information

Solar has a colorful, clean interface and offers a 24-hour & 3-day forecast (accessed by swiping up or down respectively) with ability to switch between location by swiping horizontally. Each view displays only temperature, conditions, date, time and location. See More

WeatherBug

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Cluttered UI

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Spark lightning notifier

A feature called Spark shows where lightnings take place by accessing real-time lightning monitoring information. You can then set it up to notify you when lightning has struck in a specific place or when a lightning storm is near your location. See More

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Non-removable ads

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Video of national forecasts

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Radar map

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Detailed hourly and weekly forecasts

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Ability to customize your background

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Warns of severe weather conditions

This app will send you a push notification a set amount of time before rain, storms, etc. See More

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Precise location data

WeatherBug estimates your location with a precision of a few meters. See More

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