Five weather apps you can actually rely on – and one you should avoid

As wildfires abroad contrast with the wet British summer of recent weeks, it is to a new national obsession that we are turning: weather apps. Met Office In the World Meteorological Organisation’s most recent weather apps awards, it was the Met Office that was named the world’s best public sector-provided app for usefulness, reliability and information quality, sharing the award with MyObservatory which only works in Hong Kong. “92.5 per cent of the Met Office’s next day temperature forecasts are accurate within two degrees celsius and 92 per cent of the Met Office’s next day wind speed forecasts are correct within five knots,” its website claims. The app also offers succinct daily forecasts as notifications for you to wake up to, but its greatest strength is how hyper-local it is: it shows forecasts for your precise coordinates, rather than the nearest weather monitoring station or the closest town that happens to be in an app’s database. And what not to use – Apple Weather Dark Sky was once the dark horse of the weather app market, pioneering minute-by-minute weather forecasts.