
The lack of color feels dreary, but in limiting blue to rainfall, and using black bars for temperature ranges, the app cements its ability to serve plenty of information at a glance. Scroll down and you can peruse the next 24 hours and next seven days. In tandem with the rainfall graph, these prove to be a great help in planning your next few hours. The radar places tiny arrows near storms, to show their direction of travel. The Forecast tab provides an indication of current conditions, a radar map, and – when relevant – a graph indicating rainfall over the coming hour. These days, Dark Sky is neither as pretty nor as simple – but it has evolved into one of the finest weather apps around.

Neon rainfall patterns billowed across dark-hued maps. In its earliest incarnation, Dark Sky was as much about arresting visuals as weather forecasting.
