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SkyPandayour weather according to PandaCast

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.

Download on the App Store How it works
The SkyPanda Today screen, showing current conditions in Orlando, what is worth knowing in the next sixteen hours, and the next 48 hours.
10 Forecasters consulted
25 km Grid they are scored on
90 min Of projected radar

What it does

A weather app that grades its own homework

Most apps pick a forecaster and stick with it. This one keeps a running score and changes its mind when the evidence says so.

Scored against reality

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.

Radar that runs on

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.

Warnings worth having

Lightning by how close it strikes, rain and snow by how soon they start, and official warnings within minutes, even with the app closed. Each with its own threshold, so you are interrupted for the right things.

Briefings that read your day

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.

Your own yard

Connect a WeatherFlow Tempest and it beats every model out there for the ground it stands on. Your access token stays on your phone and never reaches us.

Nine widgets, and the car

Every widget family has at least three to choose between, because one person wants the temperature and the next only wants to be told there is nothing to worry about.

How it works

Three steps, running quietly in the background

Everyone answers

The same question goes to up to ten forecasters at once: global models, your own national weather service, and your yard if you have a station in it.

Reality settles 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.

You get one answer

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

Watch the rain, then watch where it is going

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 SkyPanda radar over central Florida, with a projection timeline underneath.

The panda

Ask it a question in plain words

Whether to bike in, whether the cookout survives Saturday, whether that is thunder or a truck. 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.

The Panda tab, where questions can be asked in plain language.

When it gets serious

Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and blizzards

When a hurricane is heading your way, SkyPanda draws the official forecast path with a day and a time on every point, the cone, and how far the damaging winds reach, with you on the same map.

Official warnings come from the National Weather Service in the United States, the national services of Canada, Mexico and most of Europe, and for major storms, floods, wildfires and eruptions, anywhere in the world. They reach your phone within minutes, and they are free.

A hurricane on the SkyPanda storm screen: the forecast path with a day and time at each point, the cone, how far the damaging winds reach, and the reader's own location.

Screens

Designed, not assembled

Flat paper, ink hairlines and a warm print idiom, in six themes, with a high contrast mode that keeps each theme's color and takes back its softness.

The Today screen.
Today
The radar.
Radar
Alerts and plans.
Alerts
The Panda tab.
Panda

Plainly

What it will not do

Worth saying out loud, because most of these are things a weather app could easily get away with.

Get SkyPanda

Free on iPhone, with one ad. SkyPanda Premium takes the ad away and adds Ask Panda as often as you like, the morning and evening briefing, the calendar planner and the radar forecast. $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year, with the first week free.

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