I don’t like it, it’s another exercise in taking a functional website and ‘modernising’ it by making it look like a mobile app (i.e. the make it look attractive to kindergarten kids school of design).
For my own use cases it’s made it more annoying to get to the 7 day Canberra forecast, made the local radar harder to see, and I’m not noticing a link to the written ACT region forecast which I will want to look at in winter.
The data source for Apple Weather is the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology.
https://support.apple.com/en-vn/105038
Also, perhaps have another look at how to use a semicolon properly next time you want to badmouth highly-educated public servants.
I agree with WhatAmLenny. It might use the same data source but the way information is presented is a lot more usable. Case in point - when it’s going to rain, it gives you a pretty accurate “rain is going to start in x minutes” and a graph of how heavy it will be.
It’s not just about the raw data but how people consume it.
motherr might agree that apple weather is more usable too… however, “accurate” was the assertion being corrected and usable had nothing to do with it
Best rain app, which is more accurate than apple weather with rain alerts: https://www.rainparrot.com/
They’re using machine learning on the BoM radar and doing a great job with it.