I’d like to track hurricanes. All the apps I see collect all kinds of personal data. I just go to NOAA to see the advisories, but wondering if there is something better.

Edit: OS is Android 14 Edit: looking for radar (probably) or some other feature to track hurricanes (I don’t know what tools there are besides radar, but if there’s something else I’m interested).

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Breezy Weather is quite good.

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You’re the second to suggest it. Just got it installed, and it looks really sleek. I’m a fan. I like the widgets too.

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It also has quite nice integration with Kvaesitso launcher.

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Wow that’s a pretty app. Thanks for introducing me to it!

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Not a hurricane tracker, but I’d like understand a bit about open-meteo and breezy weather. I notice for my country there’s no way to be more specific than the whole country, therefore location needs to be enable, or so I guess.

Does open-meteo requires some information exchange such that it’s easy to identify the user/device? Does breezy weather actually attempts to anonymize the user or fake it to make them non identifiable?

Just wondering.

Thanks !

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Isn’t it illegal for the NWS to make an weather app because of lobbyist?

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Really? News to me.

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Yea pretty mess up, your tax dollars pay for the data that weather apps use for free, then some of those apps charge you lol. It was a big issue when the Hawaiian fires happened.

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I use QuickWeather and use the Open-Meteo integration. You can even selfhost it for better privacy probably.

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This looks really good. Definitely checking it out

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OS?

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Android 14

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Sorry but now with the edit I can’t recommend anything because the radars seem to always be very proprietary for some reason. I know some good weather apps. One of them has a feature called “weather emergency notices” or something like that. It can be what you’re looking for but I’m not sure. “Breezy Weather” is the name if you’re curious.

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I’ll check it out!

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Somebody else suggested breezy weather too. It is super sleek, and has some nice widgets.

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