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Hello! I'm looking for a foss weather app for android, so I went ahead to f-droid and tried a bunch of them, but didn't find any that fully satisfies me: I want to be able to see the hourly forecast of any day of the week, not just the "global" forecast, and I want the weather service used not to require a credit card (openweathermap.org for example requires the credit card to get an API key). Geometric Weather is the one that I'm currently using, with open-meteo as provider, but sadly it displays hourly forecasts only for the current day, but not for other days.

Do you have any suggestion? Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not FOSS, but did you know you can get your weather forecasts straight from the source? Weather.gov gives not only a standard 7 day forecast but also provides all sorts of weather data and lots of the charts on the site is designed to be customized then bookmarked even if your browser has cookies disabled!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wX gets its data from weather.gov and is open source. It has a lot of forecast products and can even notify you of watches and warnings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

wX is actually terrifying in its depth.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

This is the right choice. Everything else is pretty much just a different frontend for the same data.