We’ve already told you what the best weather apps are this year. After reviewing that list, I was tasked with finding my personal favorite weather app. While this sounds simple enough, it actually isn’t once you decide which features you want beyond the basics, like current and weekly weather information.
There are so many excellent weather apps available in 2024, but after sifting through numerous ones, I’ve officially settled on my favorite of the year.
At the minimum, a weather app should provide current conditions and hourly and daily forecasts. These should include temperature, humidity, wind speed, precipitation, and “feels like” temperatures. Having well-crafted radar maps is also important — especially when dangerous weather is heading your way. These maps must show precipitation, storm tracks, and cloud cover for the next few hours so you know what to expect.
A proper weather app should also be expected to provide timely severe weather alerts for your area. These notifications are essential whenever there’s an emergency.
Beyond the basics, a weather app should provide customization tools. In doing so, you’ll be able to create a more personalized experience that shows your most important information first. Customization comes in many forms, with some implementations better than others.
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The app should also offer a terrific, easy-to-follow interface that provides an excellent user experience. You don’t want a weather app that’s difficult to use. I also believe the best weather apps provide additional data such as pollen counts, air quality index, sunrise/sunset times, and weather widgets.
Finally, the best weather apps have a clear privacy policy showing you the data they collect.
There’s nothing wrong with having multiple weather apps on your phone because some fun and unique ones are available. They could have special features that make them worth using, but they might not have all the essential features to make them the best.
Two apps that serve very different purposes and fit into this category are Weather Fit and RainViewer. Weather Fit helps you decide what to wear by creating a virtual avatar and selecting clothes from a virtual closet. As the weather changes, your avatar will wear clothes you picked out that match the current conditions outside.
The second app, RainViewer, provides highly accurate, real-time precipitation forecasts directly from weather radars. It’s a fantastic app whenever you’re in the middle of a storm. However, I’m less impressed with the app when it comes to forecasting weather beyond 24 hours. That’s not its focus, and it doesn’t claim to be.
There are things to like about quirky weather apps like Weather Fit and RainViewer, but they don’t fit the bill for my No. 1 favorite weather app.
In my search to find my favorite weather app, I also tried a couple that stand firmly as my two runner-ups.
Carrot Weather is an award-winning app known for combining accurate weather forecasts with a unique, sarcastic AI personality. Unlike most weather apps that provide forecasts, Carrot Weather offers a humorous twist to weather prediction and has garnered a loyal following.
The central feature of Carrot Weather is its personalized weather forecasts. Users can get detailed information about the weather in their current location or any other place they add to the app. The forecasts include temperature, wind speed, humidity, and visibility data. But it’s the delivery of this data that sets Carrot Weather apart – expect to be greeted by a snarky comment about the day’s weather or a witty joke about your sunburn potential.
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One of the best things about Carrot Weather is its high level of customization. Users can opt for a more traditional weather app experience by toning down the humor or they can turn it up for even more sass. The app’s interface can also be customized to show your most critical information.
While the app is free to download and use, a premium subscription unlocks a treasure trove of extra features. These include more weather data sources, additional weather map layers, and even more customization for the app’s dialogue and personality.
My second runner-up is a classic: The Weather Channel app. Among the hundreds of weather apps available, the Weather Channel app stands out as a trusted source for accurate and comprehensive weather information.
Powered by one of the world’s most reputable weather forecasting services, The Weather Channel app provides precise weather updates that users can depend on. Whether you’re checking the forecast for your local area or a destination halfway across the globe, you can expect accuracy down to the hourly forecast, giving you the confidence to make plans without worrying about the weather.
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The Weather Channel app goes beyond just temperatures and precipitation. Users can access weather data, including humidity levels, wind speeds, visibility, UV index, and sunrise and sunset times. For those particularly wary of severe weather conditions, the app delivers real-time alerts for thunderstorms, hurricanes, and other significant weather events, ensuring you’re always prepared.
One of the standout features of The Weather Channel app is its comprehensive radar and map section. This feature lets users visually track live weather patterns, including precipitation and severe weather events, in their area. It’s a valuable tool for visual learners and anyone interested in a more detailed view of the impact of the weather on their surroundings.
Much of The Weather Channel app’s content is free. However, a premium subscription unlocks some great features, such as premium radar, extended forecasts, upgraded lightning coverage, and no ads.
You know how everyone has that one app they can’t live without? Well, for me, it’s AccuWeather. Seriously, this app is my weather lifeline. What I love most is how incredibly detailed it is. AccuWeather doesn’t just tell me it’s going to rain; it tells me exactly when the first drop will fall with its excellent MinuteCast feature. Are you planning a picnic? No problem, AccuWeather’s got you covered, down to the minute.
There’s also AccuWeather’s RealFeel Temperature, which is a massive game changer. It factors in everything – humidity, wind, even the sun – to tell you how it feels outside. No more getting tricked by a deceptively sunny, but freezing cold day!
But honestly, what sold me on AccuWeather is its commitment to safety. Those severe weather alerts are a lifesaver. Think of it as your personal weather guardian angel, giving you a heads-up about anything from a sudden thunderstorm to a blizzard so you can stay safe and sound.
Plus, the app itself is super easy to use. You can customize it with your favorite locations, get notifications tailored to your needs, and even geek out over radar maps tracking storms (I may or may not do this too often!). And if you’re a weather nerd like me, you’ll love all the extra stuff – news, videos, you name it. It’s like having a mini weather encyclopedia right on your phone.
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Like many others, the AccuWeather app offers premium features that can be unlocked with a subscription. There are two subscription offerings: Premium and Premium Plus.
The less expensive Premium package removes ads in the app, providing a slightly better user experience. If you’re looking for more features, the Premium+ package removes ads and includes AccuWeather alerts, hourly forecast graphs, widgets, health and activities outlook, extended daily and hourly forecasts, and more.
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So, yeah, AccuWeather is my go-to. It’s accurate and reliable and keeps me prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws my way. If you’re looking for a weather app that’s more than just essential, give AccuWeather a try. You won’t regret it.
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Galym Imanbayev is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he focuses on health tech and services investments. Galym’s interest in health is rooted in his childhood experiences growing up in Kazakhstan following his father on rural medical trips. Galym serves as a board member or board observer on Abridge, Aledade, Ancora, Fathom, Soda Health, and Wheel. Galym also spent time as an investor at Martis Capital. He completed his BA, MD, and MBA degrees at Stanford University, where he served as the graduate representative on the Stanford University Board of Trustees.
Rohan Ganesh, Partner, Obvious Ventures
Rohan is a partner at Obvious Ventures, where he invests in companies at the intersection of science, technology, and healthcare. He supports several companies as a board director or observer, including Inceptive, Inato, Pi Health, Gandeeva Therapeutics, Anagenex, and LabGenius. Prior to joining Obvious, he led venture investments in healthcare technology, biotech, and diagnostics at Verily Life Sciences, a Google spinout, and at Northpond Ventures, a multi-billion-dollar science-driven venture firm. He worked as product manager for CompuGroup Medical (leading EMR company in Europe) and in Verily’s computer-aided disease detection and machine learning team.
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Lisa Morales-Hellebo, Founder and Managing GP, REFASHIOND Ventures
Lisa has 28 years experience in tech, design and systems thinking, entrepreneurship, and community building, and has recently added VC to her list of titles as founder and co-managing GP at REFASHIOND Ventures: the Industrial Transformation Fund — a New York-based venture fund that invests as the first institutional check in early-stage startups refashioning industrial value chains across data and AI, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, and next-generation logistics; defensible through economic moats. Lisa is catalyzing the paradigm shift to localized demand chains as CEO and founder of REFASHIOND OS (rOS), which is deploying a unified data layer and control tower across manufacturing value chains. She is also a founder of the Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, an organization that is changing how supply chain professionals learn about, collaborate, and adopt early-stage supply chain innovation around the world.
Andrew Schoen, Partner, NEA
Andrew Schoen joined NEA in 2014 and is currently a partner on the Technology Investing Team focused on AI/ML, fintech, frontier tech, infrastructure software, technically differentiated SaaS, and security. Andrew serves on the board of directors for Aigen, Clarifai, Dandelion, Super, ThreatQ, and Wispr; he also works closely with several other NEA portfolio companies and plays an integral role in the firm’s Asia investing practice. Prior to NEA, he was a member of Blackstone’s M&A Group. Prior to Blackstone, he founded Flicstart, a digital media startup that provided on-demand movie screenings.
Christopher Wan, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners
Christopher Wan is a vice president in the San Francisco office, where he focuses primarily on early-stage deep technologies. Before joining Bessemer, Chris was at In-Q-Tel and Tusk Ventures, investing in companies at the intersection of technology and government. Chris was also part of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, where he researched and wrote policy proposals on artificial intelligence. He began his career as a software engineer on Facebook’s News Credibility team.
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Hurricanes Helene and Milton – which have devastated parts of the south-east United States – have bookended an exceptionally busy period of tropical storms.
In less than two weeks, five hurricanes formed, which is not far off what the Atlantic would typically get in an entire year.
The storms were powerful, gaining strength with rapid speed.
Yet in early September, when hurricane activity is normally at its peak, there were peculiarly few storms.
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So, how unusual has this hurricane season been – and what is behind it?
It was thought that exceptionally warm Atlantic temperatures – combined with a shift in regional weather patterns – would make conditions ripe for hurricane formation.
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So far, with seven weeks of the official season still to go, there have been nine hurricanes – two more than the Atlantic would typically get.
However, the total number of tropical storms – which includes hurricanes but also weaker storms – has been around average, and less than was expected at the start of the year.
After Beryl weakened, there were only four named storms, and no major hurricanes, until Helene became a tropical storm on 24 September.
That is despite warm waters in the tropical Atlantic, which should favour the growth of these storms.
Across the Main Development Region for hurricanes – an area stretching from the west coast of Africa to the Caribbean – sea surface temperatures have been around 1C above the 1991-2020 average, according to BBC analysis of data from the European climate service.
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Atlantic temperatures have been higher over the last decade, mainly because of climate change and a natural weather pattern known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
The recipe for hurricane formation involves a complex mix of ingredients beyond sea temperatures, and these other conditions were not right.
“The challenge [for forecasting] is that other factors can change quickly, on the timescale of days to weeks, and can work with or against the influence of sea surface temperatures,” explains Christina Patricola, associate professor at Iowa State University.
Researchers are still working to understand why this was the case, but likely reasons include a shift to the West African monsoon and an abundance of Saharan dust.
These both hampered storm development by creating unfavourable conditions in the atmosphere.
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But even during this period, scientists were warning that the oceans remained exceptionally warm and that intense hurricanes were still possible through the rest of the season.
And in late September, they came.
Starting with Helene, six tropical Atlantic storms were born in quick succession.
Fuelled by very warm waters – and now more favourable atmospheric conditions – these storms strengthened, with five becoming hurricanes.
Four of these five underwent what is known as “rapid intensification”, where maximum sustained wind speeds increase by at least 30 knots (35mph; 56km/h) in 24 hours.
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Historical data suggests that only around one in four hurricanes rapidly intensify on average.
Rapid intensification can be particularly dangerous, because these quickly increasing wind speeds can give communities less time to prepare for a stronger storm.
Hurricane Milton strengthened by more than 90mph in 24 hours – one of the fastest such cases of intensification ever recorded, according to BBC analysis of data from the National Hurricane Center.
Scientists at the World Weather Attribution group have found that the winds and rain from both Helene and Milton were worsened by climate change.
“One thing this hurricane season is illustrating clearly is that the impacts of climate change are here now,” explains Andra Garner from Rowan University in the US.
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“Storms like Beryl, Helene, and Milton all strengthened from fairly weak hurricanes into major hurricanes within 12 hours or less, as they travelled over unnaturally warm ocean waters.”
Milton also took an unusual, although not unprecedented, storm path, tracking eastward through the Gulf of Mexico, where waters have been exceptionally warm.
“It is very rare to see a [category] five hurricane appearing in Gulf of Mexico,” says Xiangbo Feng, research scientist in tropical cyclones at the University of Reading.
Warmer oceans make stronger hurricanes – and rapid intensification – more likely, because it means storms can pick up more energy, potentially leading to higher wind speeds.
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What about the rest of the season?
US forecasters are currently watching an area of thunderstorms located over the Cabo Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa.
This could develop into another tropical storm over the next couple of days, but that remains uncertain.
As for the rest of the season, high sea surface temperatures remain conducive for further storms.
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There is also the likely development of the natural La Niña weather phenomenon in the Pacific, which often favours Atlantic hurricane formation as it affects wind patterns.
But further activity will rely on other atmospheric conditions remaining favourable, which are not easy to predict.
Either way, this season has already highlighted how warm seas fuelled by climate change are already increasing the chances of the strongest hurricanes – something that is expected to continue as the world warms further.
“Hurricanes occur naturally, and in some parts of the world they are regarded as part of life,” explains Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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“But human-caused climate change is supercharging them and exacerbating the risk of major damage.”
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Memes on the image-hosting service Imgur “containing references to adult humor” will no longer be considered mature, the company announced in a post addressing changes to its content moderation policies.
The changes announced this week could mean that you see spicier memes on the platform more easily. Under the previous rules, memes that were tagged as mature may not have been seen as often because users have to opt in to see mature content on Imgur.
Imgur is making the changes after it collected feedback about its content moderation over the course of this year, including that its policies, “especially surrounding mature content, feel inconsistently applied, too subjective, or just rather confusing as a whole,” according to a post from Imgur product manager Martyn O’Neill. Now, mature content consists “solely of sexualised or ‘lewd’” content.
Following the adjustments, O’Neill says that “warnings / post removals” are down nearly 35 percent month over month. Far fewer posts are being marked as mature as well; that stat has declined by almost 50 percent.
Sports analytics technology company TrackMan was unknowingly exposing sensitive customer data, researchers have warned.
Jeremiah Fowler, a security analyst known for tracking down unprotected databases, revealed new findings he determined belonged to TrackMan.
The database did not have a password, and contained 31,602,260 records – for a total of 110 TB, including sensitive customer data such as names, email addresses, IP addresses, and security tokens – plenty of information to run identity theft, phishing, and other malicious activities.
Ramifications of unsecured databases
After discovering the database, Fowler reached out to TrackMan, who restricted public access the same day. However, we don’t know for how long it was sitting out in the open, or if someone accessed it beforehand. We also don’t know if it’s TrackMan who manages this database, or if it is a third party.
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TrackMan is a technology company specializing in sports analytics, particularly for golf and baseball, with solutions used by the Golf Channel, BBC, and CNN World. It uses radar and imaging technology to track the trajectory and performance of balls and players with high precision. Athletes, coaches, and teams, use TrackMan’s detailed insights to improve performance on things like ball speed, launch angle, or spin rate. Its products are widely used in professional leagues, training facilities, and by broadcasters for enhancing sports analysis and fan experiences.
Unsecured databases remain a top cause of data breaches and leaks. They are often inadvertently exposed to the internet, either due to misconfigurations or oversight during deployment. Without basic security measures like password protection or encryption, they become easy targets for hackers, who can locate them using automated tools and web scanners. The simplicity of accessing these databases, often without needing to bypass any security layers, makes them highly vulnerable to unauthorized entry.
The ramifications of hackers finding such databases are severe. Businesses can experience financial losses, regulatory fines, reputational damage, and loss of customer trust. They can also face lawsuits, compliance violations, and long-term operational disruption.
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