Acme Weather: „We’re launching in Europe!“

Dark Sky hinterließ bei mir einen bleibenden Eindruck, als ich im Jahr 2014 in New York die tatsächlich minutengenaue Regenvorhersage erlebte.

It’s one of the questions we heard most often at Dark Sky. Back then we had limited access to high quality or affordable data that would allow us to provide hyperlocal precipitation forecasts. This meant Dark Sky was only available in the US, Canada, UK and Ireland. That’s changed, and Acme is now available in the App Store in Europe. Pricing is the same as North America. It’s a two-week free trial then $25 USD/year.

For existing subscribers, you’ll now receive next hour rain notifications and forecasts in Europe just like you do in the United States and Canada.

acmeweather.com/blog

Nach sechs Jahren unter Apples Schirmherrschaft probieren sie die Eigenständigkeit noch einmal – inklusive Europa.

When you open the app, you are presented with the weather “Right Now,” the forecast for the “Next 24 Hours,” and the forecast for the “Next 10 Days”; each is listed under a bold text banner that resembles a print newspaper headline. The twenty-four-hour temperature forecast is shown as a fluctuating black line tagged with icons denoting the weather every three hours. Crucially, though, there are alternate forecasts that appear in the form of paler gray lines; sometimes the gray lines hew closely to the main black one; other times they stray considerably, indicating that the predictions are less reliable during that window. As Grossman put it to me, “Climate change is causing an increase in uncertainty. It sucks that we can’t predict the weather perfectly, but knowing that uncertainty is very useful.

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