Dark Sky was fantastic, and their API was great to use. They provided a very intuitive way to get both hyperlocal, and general forecast data, along with their nice graphics and icons as well. Way back when I built a bunch of geeklets for geektool using it to embed into the mac desktop so it's always there.
I liked their morning "do I need an umbrella today" report as well. Useful in an easy minimalistic way.
It's nice to see the Apple weather app pick up a lot of the Dark Sky features, but it's still not nearly as nice to use the Dark Sky app. The Dark Sky site has been in my bookmarks bar for probably a decade as well. The easiest way to get all the info you really need without all the fluff that most other weather sites load you on. Info rich without being overly dense. I find the Apple Weather app to be the opposite. It's info dense, but harder to pick out the items that matter (although that could just be muscle memory from using Dark Sky for so long).
I finally paid for Carrot Weather, and it is very much pitched as a Dark Sky replacement right now. The default (customizable) layout is a pitch-perfect Dark Sky copy, and the default (configurable) data source is also Dark Sky.
It will also send daily notifications when you need an umbrella or sunscreen.
I liked their morning "do I need an umbrella today" report as well. Useful in an easy minimalistic way.
It's nice to see the Apple weather app pick up a lot of the Dark Sky features, but it's still not nearly as nice to use the Dark Sky app. The Dark Sky site has been in my bookmarks bar for probably a decade as well. The easiest way to get all the info you really need without all the fluff that most other weather sites load you on. Info rich without being overly dense. I find the Apple Weather app to be the opposite. It's info dense, but harder to pick out the items that matter (although that could just be muscle memory from using Dark Sky for so long).