Curious what everyone here uses for their weather app or website of choice ?
I use yr.no. Made by Norwegian Meteorological Institute. I particularly like their detailed 10 day forcast.
On Mobile the widget from AEMET, the Spanish Meteorology Agency, on Desktop the inbuild weather widget in Vivaldi (home/new tab page)
Uses the US National Weather Service for data. The UI is basic but it has all the maps. Probably overkill and too complex for normal people but good for weather watchers, amateur meteorologists and pilots.
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.
Breezy Weather, avaiable at Fdroid. Have been quite happy with it.
Yeah, this is what I’ve been using for the last, I guess 3 - 4 years. I try new ones every now and then, but always find myself coming back to Breeze.
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
+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 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!
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.
I also ran into this, you need to check which version you’re running. The FOSS option doesn’t allow non-free sources iirc.
Didn’t a bunch lose funding and shutdown? I forgot
Weawow. It’s maintained by a lovely Japanese man who doesn’t sell any of the data or user info. It is one of the best visualized weather applications I have ever seen and lets you pick from a bunch of different models.
I was going to try this, but…
Instant deal killer right there. I guess I’m staying on Breeze weather.
It works with MicroG…
Yeah, I’m on GrapheneOS and don’t want anything to do with Google, even via Microg. Plus, I think MicroG doesn’t work with GrapheneOS.
It blows Breezy away.
Only allowable time to say you use windows.
It should come on all weather apps as a sort of health warning:
DONT FORGET TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
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
i downgraded and stopped updating breeze a couple of months ago. Their new design is awful
Wrote my own digest of NOAA text products. It’s a URL: Gnashtooth’s Weather. Needs US Zip Code. Then bookmark the details page to return. Also, there is a current-conditions page:
LAFAYETTE PURDUE UNIV AIRPORT (KLAF) Temperature: 24.1°F Dewpoint: 12.0°F Wind: NNE at 3 mph Visibility: Unlimited Sky: Mostly clear Barometer: 30.44 inHg Recorded: Sat 07 Feb 2026 11:54 AM Etc/GMT+5 (Sat 07 Feb 2026 16:54 PM Etc/UTC) en: https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLAF.TXTAnd there is a one-liner. You can include the one-liner in your eMail sig if your mail user agent (MUA) allows a shell script. Just download and print:
24° — Wind NNE at 3 mph. Sky mostly clear.`Breezy. Because AsteroidOS and Gadgetbridge.
I use BOM, Australian government weather service.
It’s funny that we complain about it, but it’s completely free, unrestricted, and beats everything else hands-down.
I don’t even complain about them, it’s mostly accurate and I’m rural so temps are gonna be out anyway.
Some app wanted me to pay for weather and it’s like… bro that shits free?
Just like hospital care, amirite? 😆
Bura. But I am currently working on my own weather service and might use it more than Bura once it’s done.
No JavaScript, no bullshit, focus on clean design and user experience and full focus on privacy. I publish updates on Mastodon under the hashtag serenum.
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.
