Forecast.io is the Weather App You Need

What do you do when your team has made a successful weather app, and you want to take it to the next level? Why, you build your own weather service, and put its power into a web app that out-classes every other online weather app the web's ever seen.

At least that's what the team behind Dark Sky, the popular iOS weather app, did. Their newly released Forecast.io site is the best weather site on the 'net, hands-down. It's beautifully designed, has rather accurate forecasts for almost any spot on earth (though with more specific and timely forecasts in the US and UK right now), and lets you see storm system data around the globe. You can go back and look at the weather history, or peek into the future forecasts. It's packed with features, isn't cluttered with ads, and even has rather great forecasts for small towns in Thailand, something most weather apps don't have.

It works great on your desktop browser, but is even more amazing on your smartphone, where it honestly feels as responsive as a native app. That's pretty amazing for a web app.

Even neater, the Forecast team is opening the data from their new weather service to other developers, which will hopefully spark more new awesome weather apps. They also made their set of animated weather icons, Skycons, open-source for others to use.

Now that's how you build momentum around your app. Awesome work, Forecast.io team. You've turned me into a fan, overnight.

Check out my colleague Phillip Gruneich's review of Forecast.io on Web.AppStorm, or just go try Forecast.io for yourself. I bet you'll be impressed, too.

Sorry, Weather Channel and Weather Underground. I've found a better place to get my forecasts.

Now wouldn't it be awesome if Apple pulled in Forecast.io integration into Siri in iOS 7?

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