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The Google Weather Android ‘app’ is going away

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Lemmy

Feb 21 at 5:46amWeb
Show threadScrubblesFeb 21
Google kills another thing I loved that cost them pennies, if anything because weather is free data. I left Google Android and am glad I did.
Show threadTrudgeFeb 21
Why are you here?
Show threadScrubblesFeb 21
Community is called android, not googles android
Show threadCorrectAliasFeb 21
Have you used Breezy? It’s great.
Show threadScrubblesFeb 21
I haven’t, is it for Android? I’m not seeing it anywhere
Show threadburned_das_brotFeb 21
f-droid.org/packages/org.breezyweather/
Breezy Weather | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A feature-rich weather app with good visualizations and many sources.

Show threadScrubblesFeb 22
thank you!
Show threadCorrectAliasFeb 21
Yeah, someone beat me to it, but it’s on F-Droid
Show threadScrubblesFeb 22
Thanks! I’m on /e/OS now so I was surprised to not see it in their AppLounge, so installed F-Droid too. It’s perfect! It’s exactly what I wanted! Thank you! (I do wish Froggy was there though)
Show threadVibeSurgeonFeb 21
While this is bad, I’m using the Pixel Weather app, which doesn’t seem to be affected by this change?
Show threadhitmyspotFeb 21
I’ve changed to breezy weather. It’s great. Edit ice to I’ve.
Show threadVictorFeb 21
I use Breezy too, works great. Complemented by my government-funded national weather app, and lastly by Google Weather. Three apps, because weather is tricky…
Show threadhitmyspotFeb 22

Weather is indeed tricky but of they all are just presenting the same data in different ways, it seems redundant to me. Just have one and recognise that weather is variable.

I do have a rain radar app to notify of incoming rain events though based off the radar.

Show threadVictorFeb 22

What’s tricky about weather is not displaying the current weather. That would be the same data. But also maybe not, if one service has access to more local measurements.

What’s tricky is the forecast, where thing can vary with more or less difference, yet still none of them could be correct in the end.

I use several apps in order to have some kind of average forecast. 👍

Show threadhitmyspotFeb 22

Yes, I get that, but pretty much every weather app I’ve used is not forecasting weather. They scrape data from a weather forecasting source. If you have 3 apps from 3 different sources. You’ll get different results, but if you’ve got the same sources, they are just presenting the same data in different ways. Some apps allow you to choose which source you choose, so you could just cycle between the different sources instead.

You’re making an average from the data, but assuming each has equal weight. So, using an unscientific method to try and be more accurate than professional meteorologists. It’s costing you more time to be less accurate and using more data and processing power. It’s negligible though.

You might be better off finding one app that gives you more detailed forecasts. Where one app might say sunny with no rain as that’s 90% certainty, another might tell you sunny (90%), rain (5%). It would come from the same data, just presented differently.

Show threadMunkysUnkEnz0Feb 21
Weawow is a free (and ad-free) weather app… It’s truly unbelievably good, totally customizable, no ads. Love it.
Show threadUlrichFeb 21
Wawawewa! Breezy Weather is the bee’s knees.