Dark Sky Founders Launch Acme Weather App

The founders of the popular Dark Sky weather app have launched a new forecasting service called Acme Weather, aiming to address longstanding frustrations with the reliability of weather predictions. The app, available now for iOS devices, introduces innovative ways to visualize forecast uncertainty and is set to expand to Android in the future.

Acme Weather arrives more than three years after Apple acquired Dark Sky in 2020 and eventually discontinued the standalone app in 2023, integrating some of its features into Apple's native Weather application. The original Dark Sky, which debuted in 2012, gained a dedicated following for its hyperlocal rain alerts and minute-by-minute precipitation graphs. Now, co-founder Adam Grossman and his team have returned to the space, driven by what they describe as widespread dissatisfaction among users with existing apps. "It's simple: when looking at the landscape of the countless weather apps out there, many of them lovely, we found ourselves feeling unsatisfied," Grossman wrote in a blog post announcing the launch. "The more we spoke to friends and family, the more we heard that many of them did too."

At the heart of Acme Weather is its...