Former Apple employees have released their own weather app to fix the biggest problem with all weather apps

A group of former Apple employees who created the Dark Sky app has decided to launch a brand-new weather app, and it’s designed to solve one particular issue. 

For those unfamiliar with the name, Dark Sky was a third-party weather app that was acquired by Apple in 2020. 

Dark Sky was eventually shut down in 2023, but not before Apple had incorporated some of its best features into its own weather app. 

Now, the team behind Dark Sky has parted ways with Apple and has launched a new iPhone weather app called Acme Weather – and it’s got an advantage over its competitors.

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Acme Weather has been designed to address a common problem

If you’ve been a long-time user of the stock Apple weather app, you’ve probably noticed that it has improved in recent years as the tech behind it gets better. 

However, even the smartest weather forecasts can never be 100 percent accurate. 

We’ve all been there, you check the weather app first thing in the morning and it tells you there’s zero chance of rain, but a few hours later you find yourself caught in a downpour without an umbrella. 

And it’s this weather uncertainty that Acme Weather app is trying to combat.

Its makers acknowledge that no weather forecast will get it right every single time, but rather than ignoring this fact and giving users a ‘single best guess’ it offers ‘alternate possible futures’ about how the day may go.

On its website, Acme Weather explained that its forecasts are made using a bunch of different sources, including satellite data, numerical weather prediction models, and ground station observations to offer a reliable forecast. 

But alongside that it’ll also offer altertanivte predictions, and how spread out these alternative predictions are will let you know how reliable. 

So, a forecast showing the alternate predictions tightly focused will be more reliable than one where there’s a significant spread.

“Over time, you build up an intuitive sense of just how much you can actually trust the forecast,” the app’s creator explain.

“After using this for the past six months, I never want to go back to a single forecast again!”

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The new weather app will also utilize community notes for a more accurate forecast

As well as offering alternative predictions, the Acme Weather app will include community reporting, a bit like the navigation app Waze, to help boost its accuracy. 

The community reporting feature is designed to help with real-time weather events.

For example, if the forecast for an area said sunshine but it’s suddenly been hit by a storm, an app user can submit a report to let others know. 

Once a report has been made it’ll appear on the app’s map to let others know what to expect. 

So the days of being caught out with your umbrella, could soon be behind you.

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