Coming to the App Store
Several forecasters, rarely in agreement. SkyPanda scores every one of them against what the weather actually does where you live, then calculates the best answer. Every time.
Orlando, FL
Approximate, from your connection
27°
Partly Cloudy
Only available
in the app
What it does
Most apps pick a forecaster and stick with it. This one keeps a running score and changes its mind when the evidence says so.
Every provider is graded on what the weather actually did near you, with old evidence fading as models get retrained. Rain is scored so that being confidently wrong costs more than hedging.
The flow is tracked block by block, so a front can pivot and a squall line can shear. It never invents rain the radar cannot see, and it says how far ahead it is willing to go.
Lightning by how close it strikes, rain and snow by how soon they start, air quality by the number on the index. Each with its own threshold, so you are interrupted for the right things.
Morning and evening, for where you are and up to three places you care about, each on whichever clock you choose. It mentions the plans the weather is going to interfere with.
Connect a WeatherFlow Tempest and it beats every model going for the ground it stands on. Your access token stays on your phone and never reaches us.
Every widget family has at least three to choose between, because one person wants the temperature and the next only wants telling there is nothing to worry about.
How it works
The same question goes to up to ten forecasters at once: global models, your own national weather service, and your garden if you have a station in it.
What actually happened is compared against what each of them predicted, on a 25 km grid, and the score is kept per place and per measurement.
The forecast leans toward whoever has been earning it near you. Nobody is ever silenced completely, because a panel of one is just a forecast with extra steps.
The radar
The loop is measured rather than guessed. Growth and decay are followed along the track, so an arriving squall does not look like an explosion and a departing one does not look like a collapse.
Projected frames say plainly that they are a forecast, and the horizon shortens when the motion is erratic. Nothing on that map is invented.
The panda
Whether to cycle in, whether the barbecue survives Saturday, whether that is thunder or a lorry. It answers from the same forecast the rest of the app is drawing.
And when there is genuinely nothing to report, it says so. Inventing an event to fill the space is how a weather app teaches people to ignore it.
Screens
Flat paper, ink hairlines and a warm print idiom, in six themes, with a high contrast mode that keeps each theme's colour and takes back its softness.
Plainly
Worth saying out loud, because most of these are things a weather app could easily get away with.
SkyPanda is in the last stretch before release. If you would like telling when it lands, or you are testing it already and something is wrong, the support page is the way in.