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I tried using Apple Weather for months—I really wanted to like it. There's just too many different charts going different directions and it adds a bunch of cognitive overhead to understand the weather.

* Current conditions take up almost half the screen—That's fine when rain is forecasted, but otherwise I don't need the biggest thing to be a number and the current conditions.

* Then the next thing down are hourly temperatures and conditions. Those are tiny and scroll horizontally.

* Then there is the 10-day barbell, which is displayed vertically. When I select an individual day, I get a pair of area charts in an action sheet showing temp and precipitation.

Dark Sky devoted the most space to the next hour. Below that had a barbell-like chart showing hourly temperatures and conditions. Then they had the 10-day barbell, but you could expand those 10-day barbells and get and hourly view within it.

That probably sounds super-picky—and maybe it is. I'm a designer. But I've moved to Carrot Weather's Dark Sky theme and have been happy with it.

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