[jwr]

Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others…

"Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

[ca6d8815]

Try your local weather app. Here in Switzerland the MeteoSwiss app is absolutely wonderful, and has all these main features:

  - Uncertainty bands in the forecast (the bands are a better UX than more lines imo)
  - User-supplied reports
  - Many many many different maps (snow / cloud / wind / sunshine / air quality / etc)
  - Alerts (not notifications, but real alerts to watch out for something)

Plus many more other features. I found Yr in Norway also good (and on the web you also get uncertainty in the 21 day forecast https://www.yr.no/en/21-day-forecast/1-305409/Norway/Troms/T...).

Local weather services shouldn't be overlooked (and they're "free"... save for taxes!).

[k4rli]

yr.no tends to be most accurate for Scandi+Baltics somehow pretty often.

Ventusky has the best app experience in Android with many different layers like wind, precipitation, air quality and many more. Can only recommend this as well.

[sschueller]

In Switzerland all weather data is now also open and accessible via API. You can also use it for commercial purposes.

https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/services-and-publications/se...

[mr_mitm]

WarnWetter for Germany. Costs a symbolic 1 Euro for dumb reasons, but I think it's easily worth it.

[jwr]

I actually use (and pay a subscription for) Windy, which is local (EU) and has data from a multitude of providers (some of which aren't free).

My comment was a critique of a launching approach that I find annoying, because I would never dare to launch an app ignoring most of the world.

[fastasucan]

Yes! They are much better. Yr has a great API as well.

[NoboruWataya]

BreezyWeather is a pretty good open source option for Android, if you are looking. Gives you plenty of options of data providers to use.

https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather

[sixtyj]

Windy.com - both website and app. It covers the whole world and seems that they have very large number of models available.

[esperent]

Also yr.no app - the Norwegian weather service. Covers the whole world, uses a decent selection of models. I go between this and windy.

[StopDisinfo910]

Why would you pay a subscription for a weather app in the EU when national providers are already so good?

I guess they wanted to focus on the US market at first because they know there is money to be made there.

[bromuro]

EU weather apps usually have an horrible UX. This one seems pretty cool and I’d pay for it if it would be available. I now use the ugly Windy.com app and the weather ios app.

[Terretta]

Has EU weather sources per credits (DWD, ECMWF, EUMETSAT -- roughly what it's doing is graphing multiple models), but if you are into weather apps you're likely best off with Carrot that (a) lets you design your own UI including matching this (more or less), and (b) lets you choose among weather sources and flip among them with a tap.

If it's about cute UI and key notifications, try Hello Weather. For microcell notifications on anything, Tomorrow weather. For much better maps, WeatherMap.

For comparing multiple models, try Windy.app. For coastal barrier island use, I have 8 graphed at once, most of them EU models.

Very little reason for any weather app beyond Carrot, though Apple Weather is surprising evolved from the app of 20 years ago, no longer the 4th app to replace after messaging, maps, and browser).

Carrot is the only weather app with a vicious weather control AI singing an entire Broadway concept album about your destruction at you though.

[shakiness3383]

I appreciate the uncertainty approach of Acme, but it’s not very meaningful if the methods are black box (just a generic list of agency sources isn’t informative). Something like meteoblue is much more robust and transparent. Will have to give Carrot a try, sounds promising.

[lionkor]

I'm in Germany and I really enjoy the Norwegian weather app YR, it's nice and simple and very clean.

[pixelesque]

Yeah, odd to show an example screenshot with France and Spain on the map if it's not available there...

[skadamat]

My understanding is that they're just starting out with the app. Someone posted it to HN prematurely. Dark Sky expanded to support global weather and I'm sure Acme will as will.

[mlrtime]

Why not look into it instead of complaining about something you have no right to have in the first place?

Maybe the market is too small, maybe it will come with the next version, maybe there are EU barriers that prevent implementation?

This constant complaining about something that didn't exist 1 second ago is tiresome.

[bromuro]

Dark Sky weather app never landed in Europe while it was available in US for years. The complaint is legit.

[agluszak]

Why is that? I know that some US-based news websites choose the nuclear option of completely disabling access to EU-based users instead of complying with EU laws. But weather app? What problem do they have with supporting EU users?

[caseyohara]

I doubt people would complain this much if they came across a weather app that is only supported in the EU or China or India. No one would say

Yet another China-only app with China-only weather, I guess, like countless others…

"Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Build your own EU weather app if you care so much. No one is obligated to support their software in the part of the world you happen to live.

[stronglikedan]

Not available on Android either, so... no big deal. They're just starting out. Give them a chance to grow.

[WarmWash]

All Europe has to do is let grind-culture young people become billionaires and they'll have all the cool (and necessary) software they could imagine.

The US might suck socially, but the other side of that coin is that it gets all the cool stuff.

[ho_schi]

It looks nice. Less nice but very good in Germany is DWD Warn Weather:

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/dwd-warnwetter/id986420993?l=e...

Yes. We pay for it with taxes! And again with our money in the App Store. But the app success is build upon the lawsuit from WetterOnline which is a private company.

https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...

The lawsuit backfired and made the state funded app well known. WetterOnline attacked the DWD because the state funded app is superior :)

I think in Italy they have some similar app. Would be nice if the EU helps us to unify the app. And add offline capabilities, bad or no internet happens. The weather radar is offline of less use but the forecast still helps.

They release videos for dangerous weather on YouTube. We’ll know for regular people, in regular cloths, speaking like regular Germans. Everyone loves it :)

I like it when important services are provided by the state and private companies. Save foundation! In worst case the state is always better. In best case they compete and public benefits. In this case the private company just sucks. But they made a good job in advertising for DWD ^^

PS: If someone would implement a nice weather for Linux (best Gtk) based upon DWD public data? DO IT!