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- The Google Weather app present points to hunt results.
- Pixel Weather (the app exclusive to Pixel phones) isn't changing.
- Local quality presumption apps are your champion stake for close forecasts.
If you've utilized the Google upwind app (technically a widget connected your location screen) to cheque the forecast recently, you mightiness person noticed a change. Instead of a visually pleasing rundown of the temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation, you get Google Search results for "weather" instead. This alteration has seemingly been successful the works for a while, but 9to5Google recently noticed it's present widespread.
The accusation is mostly the same, but it's decidedly a small easier to digest the aged way. So what's changed?
Google hasn't offered an explanation, but I person reached retired to ask. It's astir apt that Google conscionable didn't privation to support 2 akin upwind experiences (Google's telephone enactment -- from the Pixel 6 and aboriginal -- has an exclusive Pixel Weather app that isn't going anywhere) erstwhile users could get fundamentally the aforesaid accusation by pointing them to a Google search.
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Fortunately, the caller Search results inactive see Froggy, the unofficial upwind mascot who tin beryllium seen doing things similar flying a kite, sitting connected a beach, oregon carrying an umbrella depending connected the forecast. (Pixel users don't get Froggy.)
If you're disappointed implicit the change, it's astir apt a bully clip to constituent retired that your phone's default upwind app truly isn't the champion enactment anyway. What's your champion alternate now?
What are the champion upwind apps for Android?
As a spot of a upwind geek, my proposal volition ever beryllium to usage a section root for your forecast similar your NBC, ABC, oregon CBS affiliate. Most section quality stations person their ain app with a upwind tab, and astir of those apps present accusation supplied by section meteorologists. You tin usually acceptable up alerts to person notifications astir terrible weather.
That's an important favoritism because, for upwind forecasting, a quality is ever going to person a much close picture. An app mightiness springiness you a conjecture based connected 1 exemplary run, portion a quality gives you discourse based connected patterns (and often knows your circumstantial country precise well). If you privation the astir close upwind forecast, enactment section (and marque definite that the 1 you take has quality input).
If you don't person a section option, determination are immoderate reliable upwind apps you tin use.
Everything Weather: The National Weather Service (NWS) doesn't person a dedicated app, but Everything Weather is simply a adjacent alternative. This escaped app takes information straight from the NWS and presents it successful a beauteous package, truthful it's champion if you privation to spot info consecutive from the source.
Windy: The Windy app is 1 of the astir recommended connected Reddit, and portion it's targeted astatine radical doing outdoor sports and activities, it's a coagulated enactment for different users, too. There is besides a premium mentation of this escaped app.
Weather Underground: If you privation hyperlocal weather, this escaped app is your choice. The Weather Underground app lets you cheque existent conditions oregon forecasts utilizing information from much than 250,000 idiosyncratic upwind stations worldwide (my own weather station is portion of that network).
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