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		_lx4l on March 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple acquires Dark Sky Is that all of Dark Sky's value proposition? They take a beastly API and repackage it into something pleasant?

rurp on March 31, 2020 [–]

You've basically described all commercial weather apps. Dark Sky (and some others) do incorporate other local sources of info, but free govt data covers much/most of what they use.

globular-toast on April 1, 2020 | [–]

I thought weather underground was crowd sourced from user weather stations.

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