Dark Sky vs Weather Underground

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Weather Underground is packed with useful information and its charts are some of the best. Access to temperature, precipitation, and wind changes all on one chart make it easy to make predictions on when the storm will hit or the best times to be outside.

One of Weather Underground's biggest differentiating factors is the option to contribute to the weather forecast. Weather Underground offers both "sky reports" and "hazard reports" as methods for crowd reporting. Sky report allows users to report on the accuracy on the current weather forecast in their current location with either a check for correct or x for incorrect. This addition can help improve the accuracy of the weather forecasts with real eyes in the skys to check their accuracy. Hazard report allows users to report flooding, power outages, road debris, high surf, slippery roads, white out, and roads unplowed to warn other users in the area.

Wunderground supports crowdfunded weather data so you can setup and read the weather from your house.

Like most other weather applications, Weather Underground includes banner advertisements but in this application they don't feel as intrusive. Weather Underground included them at the top of the screen, out of the way of accidental touches, and they are smaller than the normal banner advertisement. If you decide to remove the advertisements, it is $1.99 a year.

Weather Underground offers a very large selection of map options including: radar, temperature, precipitation, crowd reports, IR sat., wind, US fronts, visible sat., regional temp, severe weather, hurricane, active fires, fire risk, and storm tracks. Weather Underground also provides the weather station name and location if you touch each balloon of information on the map. The amount of options can be overwhelming but it is a useful tool if your interested in using it.