Curious what everyone here uses for their weather app or website of choice ?
Bura. But I am currently working on my own weather service and might use it more than Bura once it’s done.
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I just keep a shortcut to the NOAA 2day hourly forecast for my location on the home screen. If I need to see the radar it’s a few clicks away.
But I’ve got an air quality and temperature sensor on my back porch, and am working on a rain detector as well, so the preference is towards local conditions
I love NOAA’s hourly graphs. It is a quick visual way to understand the expected forecast. I wish I could find a good iPhone app that does something similar. Carrot is pretty good, but has annoying popups asking you to subscribe to premium.
My dudes and dudettes , I’m blown away by the response. I’m going to be busy trying them all out. Thank you for the responses and I hope others found some good insight!
The best weather forecast is always the one from the official weather agency of your country
Yeah I have ADHD overload trying to process all the suggestions. Very cool lemmy
NOAA (Unofficial) - USA
I prefer this app over NOAA’s website.
KNMI and Yr apps for me. Knmi is dutch and Yr norwegian i believe.
Yr is Norwegian, but afaics they’re pretty good with nearby countries, too. It’s a product of their metreological institute, which seems like a good option privacy-wise. Not that such institutes have to be ad or data ming free, but they usually are.
They are very good for us in the Netherlands!
WeatherCAN which is made and run by Environment Canada (government run). Many weather services and apps get their data from them anyway so might as well get it right from the source.
I second this. Apps that use other services under the hood aren’t nearly as accurate, either.
I coded a OpenMateo weather call into my python router, so I can type >>weather (city, country) and get live updates.
Failing that, you can search or API this https://openweathermap.org/
Or if you wanna go ultra-minimalist (and super cool)
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
https://wttr.in/
^^ if you just type that, it will give you the weather matching your current IP address. Else use /citynameeg: wttr.in/London
I maintain that close to you geographically is better, so I use the services provided by my country’s metreological institute. They also have provide human friendly data (much more than the web ui) as json or xml, and I scripted a little app around that. It’s not hard.
Weather Master: https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.pranshulgg.weather_master_app
It’s good enough to tell me what I can see out of the window, and what I’ll probably see out of the window for the next few days
I use https://f-droid.org/packages/co.prestosole.clima
Very simple and stupid name, but does its job pretty well.
I discovered breezy when I started using GadgetBridge since breezy can provide the weather for GB. So my Garmin gets its weather from Breezy.
Ouhh this has peaked my interest! Do you use GB instead of Garmin app? Which Garmin do u use? Whats the experience using GB been?
Yes, I use GB instead of Garmin Connect. I have been doing it for the last year (started Feb 2025). I have a Fenix 7X. It has been pretty great overall. GB shows a lot of information, and does everything I want, and nothing I don’t… They recently added Health Connect functionality, which is really cool.
The only issue I’ve had was for a couple months I was having issues with my watch getting into a really bad state and needing a factory reset. It would reboot and then get stuck at “processing FIT files” (is something). I disabled auto syncing, since I theorized that maybe sometimes the sync would get interrupted or something, and Garmin firmware might freak out about it. Now I just occasionally manually sync, generally while sitting at my desk.
Besides that issue, I’ve loved GB. I finally donated last week, since I’ve gotten so much value from GB and they’re doing such good work.
Thanks for sharing! Sounds like ita time for me to checkout GB!
+1
I discovered it when I found it was shipped with CalyxOS and honestly it’s way better than anything else I’ve found.
I’m giving it a try. It does look like a good option. My only concern is that there don’t seem to be many source options for the US. There were several that showed up as unavailable when I first started, it that no longer show as options now that I’ve configured it. I’m puzzled.
Didn’t a bunch lose funding and shutdown? I forgot
I use Cirrus becauae I love its ingenious widget: it shows the next 12 hours of weather (not temperature) in a tiny space that’s super easy to read.
Mainly breezy weather.
I also installed the KNMI (royal Dutch meteorological institute) weather app recently, because some other popular Dutch weather services tried to sue them for making their free app too good.
To add to this, make sure to get the one from Izzyondroid rather than F-Droid because the F-Droid one has a few features stripped out
Aesthetically, one of my favorites is Zoom Earth. Visually its really impressive. Not the best for granular detail on a local area’s weather but still very cool
