Ever since I started using smart phones, I have been jumping between different weather apps and have not been very satisfied with most of them. I found the apps from the big weather providers like Accuweather and Weather Channel to be bloated and distracting with advertisements and irrelevant news. The app I was closest to being satisfied with was the free version of Dark Sky, but I didn’t get to enjoy it for very long since I discovered it not long before Apple acquired it. What are some of the best weather apps on Android right now?
windy.com is what use for radar. (There’s an app for it too.)
Windy is it. Great initial view of favorites for the quick check and beautiful visualizations, but man does it get deep if you want to double click.
For instance, a few weeks back I wanted to see why the sun looked orange and the sky was pale at ~3pm, so I pulled up the particulates map. I could see a 6hr moving map of particulates making their way from Alberta CA over to the skies to my west.
Also, they show a breakdown of all the major weather service providers’ forecasts and detail which are better in which situations, helping you understand if that forecast you’re planning on is really going to happen or it’s just wishful thinking.
Oh, and you can set up alerts to notify you days ahead of time if conditions are right for activities, like if it’s cool enough and good enough air quality to go for a run or if the wave swells will be high for surfing or what have you.