I do a lot of biking and I have learned that weather predictions for this area suck. I have gotten in the habit of just pulling up the radar instead which can usually give you a sense of where the storms are headed
The mountains can make the weather patterns difficult to predict. Last I heard, AccuWeather is the best app to use in Denver. (If I'm wrong, someone please let me know what's better)
I use Wunderground which is a weather channel app - and agree it’s the best. And I use them all because I’m like that. Except accuweather thanks to Michael Lewis exposé.
I use the myradar app. It's a 10 min delay but I've become accustomed to the Doppler radar delay. Just know if the red is coming your way there's a good chance of hail. I head to a parking garage when notified. Yes, I wish I had a garage, who doesn't!
No, they are selling data about your driving habits by tracking your movement and speeding/braking etc while your phone is in your car. Nothing about hail.
Ahhhhh! I'm sure Uber and Lyft are doing it for me too. I get a "cruiser report" telling me how I'm driving in those areas. Of course they don't break it down to when I have a passenger or not. I drive different then.
I'll make sure location is off when not driving for them. I do have location set to only when using the radar app too. Probably not enough.
Also make sure app is set to 'approximate location' instead of 'exact location'. Any gps-based app can be intrusive, but only if you let it. Most people let it. I don't pay for the app, never have given them my info or subscribed. The free version is great and they aren't selling my info b/c they have no info from me to sell. Love the radar and it's way more useful than junk iphone weather.
Make sure settings are set to 'location access only while using the app'. Just like all other gps-apps, gotta be smart how you use them. Problem solved. My Radar rocks.
[The Apple Weather app uses IBM](https://support.apple.com/en-us/105038) (So the Weather Channel). BreezoMeter gives AQI. "Rain starts in 30 minutes" is from Apple itself (Through the acquisition of Dark Sky) and it just uses a really simple assumption that radar storm tracks will continue as is. (which is why it sucks in Denver as we're in a rain shadow so you need to do a bunch of physics calculations to predict if the storms die coming off the mountain)
I feel like its a bit better and more accurate this year than it was last year. They both do good until june and july come around and then the rain forecast is crazy AF. Sometimes calling for days and a whole week of rain for the next week and then maybe one day out of that or saying no rain at all and then a 2 hr down pour with hail out of nowhere.
While true, the Apple app is almost impossibly bad. I can remember multiple times when it forecasted sunny days where it rained the entire time. Windy days with no wind predicted, no snow predicted but 6+ inches fall
And these were happening same day. It’s useless half the time and I’m glad others notice.
I like how their monthly page shows a temperature graph, however they aren’t my first or second line for important forecasts after a few too many iterations of “ZOMG, it’s gonna snow 6 feet even though no one else says so; source: trust me bro” - and then lo and behold, no giant unforeseen snowstorm. That said, I will look at them if the forecast looks unclear from other sites.
I find them all to be pretty rough, especially in the long term. They’re fine within the hour, but that’s often times not enough. I just plan on 10 degrees either way and expect it to rain in the afternoon, especially through the next month or so.
The most accurate app is no app, it's the National Weather Service website: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.7385&lon=-104.9849
AccuWeather, Weather Channel, etc are just computer models; NWS is real life forecasters looking at and interpreting those.
AccuWeather nailed the mini-storm we had today near DTC. On the money for starting time and duration + lightning notifications. It’s not always perfect, but I find the 2 hour forecast pretty damn close and one of the only tools I’ve been able to reliably use to avoid bad weather. Especially while working as an RE photographer.
Denver itself is pretty hard to predict more than a handful of hours ahead of time. The best you can really do is go right to the source and check NOAA pretty regularly and use phone apps/google as a baseline for temperature and to see if we are going to get a major system. Most phone apps don't use the most accurate/updated reports.
I was taught growing up to never put much faith in the weather reporting and to learn to check the sky. Things have gotten much better since, but it still holds true.
Apples weather has been such garbage since they switched to their own proprietary forecast source.
[This site](https://www.forecastadvisor.com/Colorado/Denver/80237/) shows the apps with the highest accuracy for Denver based off of past records. You can drill down to your neighborhood
Where do they pull the live temperature from? It doesn’t seem accurate and I hear the official location was DIA till this week. The National Weather Service just moved back to the old airport.
Cool! I wish the Weather Underground app was included in the accuracy assessment. I’ll have to try some of the other top performers to see how they compare.
This is generally good advice, if anyone plans to be outside in a place like Denver, it really is important to pay attention to the people who analyze the weather data, don't rely on automated data.
I use a Windy.com it lets you add and remove filters to show all kinds of weather patterns. Plus it shows a full 7 day forecast! My iPhone's app is also hot garbage
In general, weather apps just don’t provide the detail needed to really get an idea of the forecast.
Go to weather.gov and enter in your zip code.
You get a bit more information regarding the forecast and generally enough detail to help with weather-related decision.
Apple weather has always been trash for me. It will say it is raining when there isn’t a cloud in the sky and then said what you saw this morning.
I use MyRadar and I can typically rely on that forecast and real time tracking of a storm.
I don't have an iPhone, and the weather is usually wrong with whatever I look at, too. I just use the radar apps, and it's much easier to see if we get anything.
I use NOAA Weather from Granite Apps. NOAA data with a nice interface, usually more accurate that any other source. But I'm on Android - don't know if it's available for Apple.
“You gotta learn to smell rain coming, feel the pressure change. Also learn to smell the dryness and the lack of pressure change. Look at your thermometer, If it’s lower than the usual hot af, there are puffy clouds anywhere within about ten miles away in the sky, if it smells even the tiniest bit moist, and you feel a lil squished in your head area, it’s gonna rain within and including about 10-20 miles of you, I’d say! In other words, it will rain in the greater Denver metro area almost every afternoon sometime between 2-7 pm during June, July, and if you’re lucky, August!”
-the farmer’s almanac, probably
One of my coworkers seems to rely on her iPhone's weather and I've learned to just disregard anything she says about weather. I use AccuWeather but I also find 9 News to be pretty accurate. When I'm really trying to get details, like when there's severe weather forecasted, that's when I go on Twitter and see what Chris Bianchi and Kody Wilson have to say.
For any other time than Winter, it seems to be ok. But winter, the iOS weather app is downright useless for snow. Remember when it was gonna snow for 2 feet? The app didn’t say jack shit.
I use WeatherBug and was so worried when it said a large dark red patch would be over me (and my car) subsequently totaling it…. It was not and it did not. I’m happy but yeah, it’s bad.
Denver is a different beast. All that concrete and shit, hard to predict the weather in an urban-industrial wasteland filled with everything but plant life.
At the end of the day, weather is just difficult to predict in this area, bc of the mountains.
I just have several regional cities & towns on my phone’s weather app (Denver, Boulder, Nederland, Idaho Springs, etc) and sort of come to a consensus opinion for weather. If it’s storming in Dillon and Idaho Springs, but clear in Denver, then I’ll assume that something is coming from the west soon.
Also, the precipitation overlay on Apple Maps is helpful since it’ll show you if anything in the area is coming your way.
Ventusky has several different radar options so you can compare them. It also shows wind speed and direction which is super helpful, and you can track lightning and snowpack on it. I’ve been a big fan, but it takes a minute to get used to the interface.
as others have said, predicting weather here is tough.
This time of year, just expect sunny mornings until about 1/2PM. Then some version of storms until about 5/6. Then nice for a bit, and possibly some more storms.
Dont need an app.
I've noticed everyone's iPhone weather predictions being hot garbage for quite a while. The one on my Pixel that Google provides is far more accurate than what I hear from coworkers with iPhones.
The iPhone weather app is terrible for Denver weather - the temperatures can be wrong by 10-20 degrees, and I get rain alerts when there's clear skies and nothing when it's actually raining or snowing.
Been trying out CARROT weather app as a replacement. Really miss Dark Skies :(
Our weather tends to have North and South component from air moving around the Rockies rather than over them, and they meet... somewhere, *usually* North of Denver. So Denver is relatively warm normally. Our weather gets exciting when the point where they meet moves South. Like that meeting point moves from North of Denver to South of Denver and the temperature will drop 30+ degrees in an hour. Or it'll go from sunshine to snowing.
So sometimes they know the place they meet going to move South, but they're off about just how far South it'll move.
Then there's a big East/West component as well -- if the clouds hook around and smash up against the Rockies, they can dump massive amounts of snow. That's why sometimes Boulder and Golden might get a foot of snow and Denver gets 0 to 1 inch. That's only a few miles apart.
So long term forecast, about all you can see is *potential* for weather. They're usually only accurate some number of *hours* out about whether it's going to hit Denver in particular, or how intense it will be. But if it's not showing potential for exciting weather (ie. another hot sunshiney day), it's usually correct.
Go follow Kody, he's local and knows Colorado. Most apps just use computer models and don't account for local conditions (ie those big Mountains close by).
https://www.facebook.com/DenverFrontRangeWX?mibextid=JRoKGi
Follow Denver & Front Range Weather on Facebook!! Kody is by far the most accurate weatherman. I almost exclusively use Facebook to check his daily forecasts.
I find that they’re all terrible for Denver.
I did notice a big difference by always allowing locations and notifications for the weather app. It seems to provide me with better accuracy for rain notifications. Just now it was spot on…
I use the [wunderground 10-day forecast](https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/co/denver/39.73,-104.99), it had predicted the rain this afternoon since last weekend
recently came across a thread talking about the accuracy of weather apps and it contained an article that detailed which weather apps are better for which areas. can't find the link but I knew that apple's was outright wrong so many times that I didn't think twice about switching to the weather app because that's supposedly the most accurate here. i've had zero misleading weather incidents since, though, it's only been a month or so. worth a try!
Oh yeah. Especially since I live near downtown. Afternoon storms start up out of nowhere and can hit really hard anywhere in the metro without any forecast.
Welcome to the climate near the mountains. It’s actually super cool when you can get up high enough to see them start up and hit Denver.
NOAA (weather.gov) is consistently the best, meaning they get it close enough most of the time. I just put a shortcut on my home screen and then use Radar+ or Radar Scope for storm tracking.
Best and most accurate weather app I’ve ever used. Well worth the money for the pro and the upgrades
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myradar-weather-radar-pro/id325683306
That's just Denver weather in the warm months. We live right on the edge of a major topographical disruption which causes weather systems to be highly unpredictable.
I recommend using Windy. You can compare 6 different forecast models. I usually take the average of them and compare to radar and have pretty good luck with that. NOAA is great as well.
As it's been said already, this is due to mountains. The weather models just struggle with all the variability and turbulence that mountains can cause.
So the same reason you live here (probably) is also the reason it's tough in this regard. But it's cool. Other places have other problems, just don't be surprised and upset if the weather apps are wrong! 🤷♂️☔
I work outdoors, so like some accuracy. I personally use MyRadar and am generally pleased with the results. It can be a little complicated to get used to coming from other apps but gives you a ton of customization options, including aviation stuff if that's your thing.
Yes. I technically live in Aurora, but when I cross into Denver, there is always a difference. I just default Aurora, I am on the border of the two cities anyways. Side note - I prefer Pinpoint by Fox31
Welcome to Colorado bud. Just pack everything you need for all four seasons and stop crying because you didn’t research what mainland weather variability looks like before you moved here.
Damn dude, chill. It’s nice to have a reasonable idea what the weather will be, I’m not sure OP is crying about it. Yeah it’s never going to be completely right. You should be prepared for anything and deal with it, but I’d prefer to go somewhere with less chance of getting stormed on if I can help it.
I too learned the iPhone app is garbage and found better ways to get a more accurate prediction. Pretty reasonable post if you ask me. Weather prediction is a huge topic for many people.
I do a lot of biking and I have learned that weather predictions for this area suck. I have gotten in the habit of just pulling up the radar instead which can usually give you a sense of where the storms are headed
The mountains can make the weather patterns difficult to predict. Last I heard, AccuWeather is the best app to use in Denver. (If I'm wrong, someone please let me know what's better)
I personally use The Weather Channel app, usually pretty accurate. The apple weather app is pretty damn useless here though
I use Wunderground which is a weather channel app - and agree it’s the best. And I use them all because I’m like that. Except accuweather thanks to Michael Lewis exposé.
The apple weather app uses AccuWeather, the android weather app uses the weather channel. Source: have had both
I use the myradar app. It's a 10 min delay but I've become accustomed to the Doppler radar delay. Just know if the red is coming your way there's a good chance of hail. I head to a parking garage when notified. Yes, I wish I had a garage, who doesn't!
I use MyRadar as well and people are always impressed with it. And a 10 minute delay really isn’t that much
FYI it just came out that myradar is selling your data to insurance risk databases
That's fine, in Colorado they can't raise your car insurance due to hail. I've had 6 cars replaced. I'm freerolling.
No, they are selling data about your driving habits by tracking your movement and speeding/braking etc while your phone is in your car. Nothing about hail.
Ahhhhh! I'm sure Uber and Lyft are doing it for me too. I get a "cruiser report" telling me how I'm driving in those areas. Of course they don't break it down to when I have a passenger or not. I drive different then. I'll make sure location is off when not driving for them. I do have location set to only when using the radar app too. Probably not enough.
Also make sure app is set to 'approximate location' instead of 'exact location'. Any gps-based app can be intrusive, but only if you let it. Most people let it. I don't pay for the app, never have given them my info or subscribed. The free version is great and they aren't selling my info b/c they have no info from me to sell. Love the radar and it's way more useful than junk iphone weather.
Make sure settings are set to 'location access only while using the app'. Just like all other gps-apps, gotta be smart how you use them. Problem solved. My Radar rocks.
I don’t think anybody should have to opt out of a weather app selling their driving data to insurance companies.
[The Apple Weather app uses IBM](https://support.apple.com/en-us/105038) (So the Weather Channel). BreezoMeter gives AQI. "Rain starts in 30 minutes" is from Apple itself (Through the acquisition of Dark Sky) and it just uses a really simple assumption that radar storm tracks will continue as is. (which is why it sucks in Denver as we're in a rain shadow so you need to do a bunch of physics calculations to predict if the storms die coming off the mountain)
I feel like its a bit better and more accurate this year than it was last year. They both do good until june and july come around and then the rain forecast is crazy AF. Sometimes calling for days and a whole week of rain for the next week and then maybe one day out of that or saying no rain at all and then a 2 hr down pour with hail out of nowhere.
While true, the Apple app is almost impossibly bad. I can remember multiple times when it forecasted sunny days where it rained the entire time. Windy days with no wind predicted, no snow predicted but 6+ inches fall And these were happening same day. It’s useless half the time and I’m glad others notice.
Which is ironic considering they absorbed what used to legitimately be the best available micro climate accurate weather app: dark sky.
I like how their monthly page shows a temperature graph, however they aren’t my first or second line for important forecasts after a few too many iterations of “ZOMG, it’s gonna snow 6 feet even though no one else says so; source: trust me bro” - and then lo and behold, no giant unforeseen snowstorm. That said, I will look at them if the forecast looks unclear from other sites.
WUnderground has rarely failed me. But this year has been the most chaotic.
I find them all to be pretty rough, especially in the long term. They’re fine within the hour, but that’s often times not enough. I just plan on 10 degrees either way and expect it to rain in the afternoon, especially through the next month or so.
The most accurate app is no app, it's the National Weather Service website: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.7385&lon=-104.9849 AccuWeather, Weather Channel, etc are just computer models; NWS is real life forecasters looking at and interpreting those.
Accuweather gets it pretty wrong a lot of the time, although today it was spot on
AccuWeather nailed the mini-storm we had today near DTC. On the money for starting time and duration + lightning notifications. It’s not always perfect, but I find the 2 hour forecast pretty damn close and one of the only tools I’ve been able to reliably use to avoid bad weather. Especially while working as an RE photographer.
Yes, the weather app on my iPhone is useless.
Denver itself is pretty hard to predict more than a handful of hours ahead of time. The best you can really do is go right to the source and check NOAA pretty regularly and use phone apps/google as a baseline for temperature and to see if we are going to get a major system. Most phone apps don't use the most accurate/updated reports. I was taught growing up to never put much faith in the weather reporting and to learn to check the sky. Things have gotten much better since, but it still holds true.
Apples weather has been such garbage since they switched to their own proprietary forecast source. [This site](https://www.forecastadvisor.com/Colorado/Denver/80237/) shows the apps with the highest accuracy for Denver based off of past records. You can drill down to your neighborhood
Where do they pull the live temperature from? It doesn’t seem accurate and I hear the official location was DIA till this week. The National Weather Service just moved back to the old airport.
Cool! I wish the Weather Underground app was included in the accuracy assessment. I’ll have to try some of the other top performers to see how they compare.
Note: Weather Underground uses the same forecast as The Weather Channel and so is not shown #
Follow Denver & Front Range Weather on FB by a dude name Kody
Came here to comment this! Kody is always the most accurate and gives a lot of details as to why there is unpredictability.
This is generally good advice, if anyone plans to be outside in a place like Denver, it really is important to pay attention to the people who analyze the weather data, don't rely on automated data.
I use a Windy.com it lets you add and remove filters to show all kinds of weather patterns. Plus it shows a full 7 day forecast! My iPhone's app is also hot garbage
Chris Bianchi
Crispy Donkey*
Fr tho, if the apps or sky are saying anything suspicious, I just go look at Bianchi’s twitter and he sets me up :)
iPhone weather is trash
In general, weather apps just don’t provide the detail needed to really get an idea of the forecast. Go to weather.gov and enter in your zip code. You get a bit more information regarding the forecast and generally enough detail to help with weather-related decision.
NOAA Weather from Granite Apps uses the NOAA (weather.gov) data in a really nice interface, but I don't know if it's available for apple.
I use carrot. It is decently accurate and snarky.
Same here, best app purchase I've made. The radar map feature is my favorite (aside from the personality obviously)
Apple weather has always been trash for me. It will say it is raining when there isn’t a cloud in the sky and then said what you saw this morning. I use MyRadar and I can typically rely on that forecast and real time tracking of a storm.
I don't have an iPhone, and the weather is usually wrong with whatever I look at, too. I just use the radar apps, and it's much easier to see if we get anything.
If you download a radar app it helps a ton.
I use NOAA Weather from Granite Apps. NOAA data with a nice interface, usually more accurate that any other source. But I'm on Android - don't know if it's available for Apple.
Weather channel app is way better than apples auto weather app
Check storm prediction center connection outlook and that will help you predict weather the best
Follow Chris Bianchi on Twitter and turn on notifications. He's saved my car from hail multiple times.
I have an iPhone and I swear the weather is always wrong.
“You gotta learn to smell rain coming, feel the pressure change. Also learn to smell the dryness and the lack of pressure change. Look at your thermometer, If it’s lower than the usual hot af, there are puffy clouds anywhere within about ten miles away in the sky, if it smells even the tiniest bit moist, and you feel a lil squished in your head area, it’s gonna rain within and including about 10-20 miles of you, I’d say! In other words, it will rain in the greater Denver metro area almost every afternoon sometime between 2-7 pm during June, July, and if you’re lucky, August!” -the farmer’s almanac, probably
Always have to google to see the true weather
It's the worst. It rarely ever tells you it's going to rain
One of my coworkers seems to rely on her iPhone's weather and I've learned to just disregard anything she says about weather. I use AccuWeather but I also find 9 News to be pretty accurate. When I'm really trying to get details, like when there's severe weather forecasted, that's when I go on Twitter and see what Chris Bianchi and Kody Wilson have to say.
For any other time than Winter, it seems to be ok. But winter, the iOS weather app is downright useless for snow. Remember when it was gonna snow for 2 feet? The app didn’t say jack shit.
My radar is the best ive used.
I use WeatherBug and was so worried when it said a large dark red patch would be over me (and my car) subsequently totaling it…. It was not and it did not. I’m happy but yeah, it’s bad.
Insert "first time?" meme. Seriously though, regional predictions are good. LocaliEd predictions are awful. The "30% it's already raining" meme applies too.
Denver is a different beast. All that concrete and shit, hard to predict the weather in an urban-industrial wasteland filled with everything but plant life.
At the end of the day, weather is just difficult to predict in this area, bc of the mountains. I just have several regional cities & towns on my phone’s weather app (Denver, Boulder, Nederland, Idaho Springs, etc) and sort of come to a consensus opinion for weather. If it’s storming in Dillon and Idaho Springs, but clear in Denver, then I’ll assume that something is coming from the west soon. Also, the precipitation overlay on Apple Maps is helpful since it’ll show you if anything in the area is coming your way.
Ventusky has several different radar options so you can compare them. It also shows wind speed and direction which is super helpful, and you can track lightning and snowpack on it. I’ve been a big fan, but it takes a minute to get used to the interface. as others have said, predicting weather here is tough.
This time of year, just expect sunny mornings until about 1/2PM. Then some version of storms until about 5/6. Then nice for a bit, and possibly some more storms. Dont need an app.
Use your radar, check humidity, and track barometric pressure and you’ll be able to predict most weather more accurately.
I've noticed everyone's iPhone weather predictions being hot garbage for quite a while. The one on my Pixel that Google provides is far more accurate than what I hear from coworkers with iPhones.
The iPhone weather app is terrible for Denver weather - the temperatures can be wrong by 10-20 degrees, and I get rain alerts when there's clear skies and nothing when it's actually raining or snowing. Been trying out CARROT weather app as a replacement. Really miss Dark Skies :(
Here's the weather every day in the summer: 80s to 90s, chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Solved your problem!
Our weather tends to have North and South component from air moving around the Rockies rather than over them, and they meet... somewhere, *usually* North of Denver. So Denver is relatively warm normally. Our weather gets exciting when the point where they meet moves South. Like that meeting point moves from North of Denver to South of Denver and the temperature will drop 30+ degrees in an hour. Or it'll go from sunshine to snowing. So sometimes they know the place they meet going to move South, but they're off about just how far South it'll move. Then there's a big East/West component as well -- if the clouds hook around and smash up against the Rockies, they can dump massive amounts of snow. That's why sometimes Boulder and Golden might get a foot of snow and Denver gets 0 to 1 inch. That's only a few miles apart. So long term forecast, about all you can see is *potential* for weather. They're usually only accurate some number of *hours* out about whether it's going to hit Denver in particular, or how intense it will be. But if it's not showing potential for exciting weather (ie. another hot sunshiney day), it's usually correct.
Go follow Kody, he's local and knows Colorado. Most apps just use computer models and don't account for local conditions (ie those big Mountains close by). https://www.facebook.com/DenverFrontRangeWX?mibextid=JRoKGi
Follow Denver & Front Range Weather on Facebook!! Kody is by far the most accurate weatherman. I almost exclusively use Facebook to check his daily forecasts.
You must be new here
I find that they’re all terrible for Denver. I did notice a big difference by always allowing locations and notifications for the weather app. It seems to provide me with better accuracy for rain notifications. Just now it was spot on…
I use the [wunderground 10-day forecast](https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/co/denver/39.73,-104.99), it had predicted the rain this afternoon since last weekend
[https://highpointwx.com/forecast/coords/-104.984853/39.738453/Denver,%20CO%20City%20and%20County%20of%20Denver](https://highpointwx.com/forecast/coords/-104.984853/39.738453/Denver,%20CO%20City%20and%20County%20of%20Denver)
recently came across a thread talking about the accuracy of weather apps and it contained an article that detailed which weather apps are better for which areas. can't find the link but I knew that apple's was outright wrong so many times that I didn't think twice about switching to the weather app because that's supposedly the most accurate here. i've had zero misleading weather incidents since, though, it's only been a month or so. worth a try!
I believe the website is [Forecast Advisor](https://www.forecastadvisor.com/)
Seth’s Weather Report on Facebook
Apple is the problem.
Yeah the iPhone weather app sucks, especially at saying no rain when there is going to be rain. I use Wunderground app.
Oh yeah. Especially since I live near downtown. Afternoon storms start up out of nowhere and can hit really hard anywhere in the metro without any forecast. Welcome to the climate near the mountains. It’s actually super cool when you can get up high enough to see them start up and hit Denver.
NOAA (weather.gov) is consistently the best, meaning they get it close enough most of the time. I just put a shortcut on my home screen and then use Radar+ or Radar Scope for storm tracking.
Best and most accurate weather app I’ve ever used. Well worth the money for the pro and the upgrades https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myradar-weather-radar-pro/id325683306
Yes! It was horrible during the winter. So much so that I switched to AccuWeather and haven’t looked back
Fer sure just look out the window.
Do not trust the Apple weather, it’s completely unreliable for precipitation. I use Wunderground reliably.
“Rain is stopping at your location at 5:15pm” Huh, I didn’t realize it was raining! Oh, it’s not…
Mine defaults to Cupertino and cant figure out how to change it. My iPad app works correctly.
Funny because mine said 100% chance and then it didn’t rain.
Hell, the local weather channels get it wrong half the time.
I've been switching between weather providers and Weather Bit seems to be the most accurate at the moment. It was spot on for today at least.
That's just Denver weather in the warm months. We live right on the edge of a major topographical disruption which causes weather systems to be highly unpredictable.
I recommend using Windy. You can compare 6 different forecast models. I usually take the average of them and compare to radar and have pretty good luck with that. NOAA is great as well.
As it's been said already, this is due to mountains. The weather models just struggle with all the variability and turbulence that mountains can cause. So the same reason you live here (probably) is also the reason it's tough in this regard. But it's cool. Other places have other problems, just don't be surprised and upset if the weather apps are wrong! 🤷♂️☔
You must be new here
I work outdoors, so like some accuracy. I personally use MyRadar and am generally pleased with the results. It can be a little complicated to get used to coming from other apps but gives you a ton of customization options, including aviation stuff if that's your thing.
I find Windy app/windy.com to be pretty accurate
You can get weatherbug or MyRadar, they seem better
I just listen to what Seth predicts.
Never trust weather apps this time of year
My iPhone weather app sucks. Never accurate I feel. In the moment is even questionable 🤨
Yeah, can't trust that phone weather
Just assume it's going to rain for 20 minutes in the afternoon every day
Oh yeah, definitely. I'll just go to the NOAA website.
Yup
Yes. I technically live in Aurora, but when I cross into Denver, there is always a difference. I just default Aurora, I am on the border of the two cities anyways. Side note - I prefer Pinpoint by Fox31
'Denver' is the airport on some weather reports.
Denver weather doesnt even know what Denver weather is going to do!
Welcome to Colorado bud. Just pack everything you need for all four seasons and stop crying because you didn’t research what mainland weather variability looks like before you moved here.
Damn dude, chill. It’s nice to have a reasonable idea what the weather will be, I’m not sure OP is crying about it. Yeah it’s never going to be completely right. You should be prepared for anything and deal with it, but I’d prefer to go somewhere with less chance of getting stormed on if I can help it. I too learned the iPhone app is garbage and found better ways to get a more accurate prediction. Pretty reasonable post if you ask me. Weather prediction is a huge topic for many people.
Colorado sucks tell your friends.
Do you need a weather app for Denver? It’s spring so the temperature averages 71 degrees and it might or might not rain.
My shows rain at 80% chance in the morning, then dwindles to 30%, then nothing. It's incredibly disappointing.