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Add to SafariWhen comparing Dark Sky vs The Weather Channel, the Slant community recommends Dark Sky for most people. In the question“What are the best weather apps for iOS?” Dark Sky is ranked 1st while The Weather Channel is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Dark Sky is:
Multiple reports suggest that Dark Sky has an uncanny precision in its ability to predict weather conditions.
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Eerily accurate weather predictions
Multiple reports suggest that Dark Sky has an uncanny precision in its ability to predict weather conditions.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro 3D radar map with weather information
With Dark Sky you can access a 3D Earth that offers information of precipitation and temperature.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro Uncluttered UI
Dark Sky has a clean, monochromatic design that takes advantage of icons whenever possible.
Pro Bright and quick user interface
The overall theme of The Weather Channel app is bright with a consistent amount of Weather Channel blue. Fortunately the app also performs well. The app shares a similar design to the Google Play Store with scrolling tabs for "radar," "now," "videos," and "forecast." The scrolling tabs are very fluid and each tab is quick to load.
Pro Solid offering of widgets
The Weather Channel widgets are attractive and functional. The widgets are available in 1x1, 2x2, and 4x1 sizes and even follow their own application's design language instead of following HTC like many others.
Pro Solid radar maps
The Weather Channel app's maps provide a descent amount of radar options but the overall design is very confusing and the in app tutorial hint is useless.
Pro Video forecasts
The Weather Channel with its large TV presence offers an impressive amount of weather forecasts videos in the app. Although many of the videos in the app such as "Lady and the Shark!" have absolutely nothing to do with weather.
Pro Travel based information
The Weather Channel application allows you to input a starting point and destination on a radar map and then predict if you will encounter any type of storms along the route. The feature needs work and doesn't always work properly but the idea is promising if improved.
Cons
Con 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.
Con Rarely gives push notifications for severe weather, only precipitation
Con Somewhat sluggish
Occasional loading screens make the app feel a bit laggy.
Con Focused more on features than actual weather
A lot of the developers time for The Weather Channel app has not gone toward better weather forecasts but many unnecessary features like weather achievements and the annoying mPOINTS reward system.
Con Unremovable advertisements
The Weather Channel app includes banner advertisements like most weather applications but unlike other applications that let you pay a dollar or two to remove them, The Weather Channel forces them on you. Even worse is that they are positioned conveniently at the bottom of the application right where you are likely to accidentally open them.
