![]() All weather data providers seem to be strong in some parts of the world and weaker in others, including WeatherKit, but it’s good to have another choice, especially since Dark Sky will no longer offer forecasts beginning next year. Whatever is most important to you, there’s bound to be a widget for it in CARROT Weather.įinally, CARROT Weather has added another weather data provider: Apple’s own WeatherKit service. The remainder of the widgets are circular ones that offer a long list of data points like the current conditions, the current temperature along with the forecast high and low, the change of precipitation, wind speed, UV Index, Air Quality, and more. Four of those widgets, Snark, Custom Conditions, Hourly Forecast, and Daily Forecast, are the larger rectangular variety. In addition to the new iPad design and new sections available in the iPhone and iPad versions of the app, CARROT Weather now comes with a whopping 20 Lock Screen widgets for the iPhone. You want more? Tap the ocular sensor to hear outraged remarks from the app about how it does not like the sensor being touched.A few of CARROT Weather’s circular Lock Screen widgets. There is also a game that makes you look for not so secret locations, even while the app tries its best to belittle your efforts, and if even that is enough, there is an AR mode that plonks a large eye-like object that the app calls its ocular sensor, with weather information around it. That’s not all – the app also comes with time travel that lets you check the weather conditions from some years ago – it does not quite go as far back as the options indicate (anything beyond 2004 does not get an answer), but every trip is accompanied by a saucy remark. ![]() In the current scenario, we have kept the personality at Homicidal and vary the politics depending upon who says what worldwide. It goes from a relatively refined “professional” to a more amiable “friendly”, starts getting sarcastic at “snarky”, turns on the cynicism full blast at “Homicidal,” and really lets you have it at “Overkill.” You can also specify the kind of political you want – choose from Centrist, Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian and Communist, or just turn it off with the “No politics” option. ![]() Be warned, you could have to end up hearing stuff like: “ The sun is out! Quick, scurry back int the shadow like a good little cockroach!” We do not mind it at all, but if you are the type that might get offended, you actually can set the level of well, aggression, to different levels, by adjusting the “Personality” of the app – oh yes, you can do that. Even it is showing weather information, there will be a saucy quote right at the top, and if you have left the sound on, you will hear a mechanical voice read it out. The graphic at the top of the app reflects weather conditions outside.īut there is no hiding the craziness that lurks below this normalcy. ![]() And it does have a very nice uncluttered and clean interface – you just swipe across different days or tap at a particular time to get more information about it. Of course, it tells you about the weather, giving you the day’s and the week ahead’s information about the temperature, precipitation, wind, visibility pressure, humidity, dew point and all. The first hint you get of it is while installing it when it will call you “meatbag” (a word you will hear very often indeed). An app dedicated to something as routine as the weather comes with a truckload of sass. I mean, we are talking of an app which declares: What makes Carrot Weather an app worth getting right now is its insanity. But that is not why we are talking about it again. Interestingly, Carrot Weather used to get its weather data from Dark Sky and will continue to do so until the end of 2021. We had talked of the app earlier but given Apple’s acquisition of Dark Sky (and pulling it off Android altogether), we think it deserves a revisit. Why would we be talking of weather apps at a time when millions of us have been asked to stay indoors? Well, because Carrot Weather is not really your run of the mill weather app.
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