Your guide to forecasts and weather widgets

Use Weather Pro to read an hourly forecast, choose its model and place, and configure a compact widget view. This guide covers the app’s current development scope and links to detailed explanations of rain, wind, forecast models and device-specific widget settings.

Start with a place

Weather Pro is in development. This guide explains the forecast and settings in the current app; download information will appear in the changelog when a public release is available.

Open Places to choose a saved city, search for another location or add a named point using latitude and longitude. Check the search result before saving it: several places can have the same name. A named coordinate point is useful for a location that a city search does not describe precisely.

Current Location is optional. Choose it when you want the forecast for your device’s location. Declining location permission still leaves saved places, city search and manual coordinates available. A city search and the first forecast for a new point need an internet connection; entering coordinates alone does not download weather data.

Forecast hours follow the selected place’s time zone. When checking another city before a trip, read its local date and hours rather than assuming they match the time on your device.

Read the hours together

Each column brings the weather for an hour into the same view. Start with temperature, then follow precipitation, wind and gusts across the period you care about. The row labels stay in place while you browse the hours, so you can keep track of which value you are reading.

Use the one-hour view for a closer look or the three-hour view to see a broader stretch of the day. Changing the interval changes the presentation; it does not make the underlying forecast more certain.

Precipitation amounts cover the interval ending at the column’s hour. In a three-hour view, an amount at 12:00 describes the preceding three hours, from 09:00 to 12:00. It does not predict that rain will start at 12:00. The rain-chance value belongs to the column’s individual hour, so it is not a three-hour probability.

Read wind speed and gusts separately, with their units. Gusts describe stronger short-lived winds. The app can also show wind direction; compact widgets and Apple Watch use a more limited set of fields.

A dash means a value is missing, while zero means the forecast actually contains zero. Do not read a dash as dry weather, calm wind or a temperature of zero.

For more examples, read how to interpret an hourly forecast.

Use the daily overview

Daily cards help you find a date before reading its hours. Select a day to move to that part of the forecast, then inspect the values that matter to your plans.

The overview uses the forecast data available for that place and model. A daily minimum or maximum needs a complete local day’s temperature samples. A partial day at the end of the available forecast can therefore show a dash instead of an invented high or low.

Choose a forecast model

The model selector offers ECMWF IFS 9 km, ECMWF IFS 0.25°, DWD ICON and NOAA GFS through Open-Meteo. Choose a model, then keep the place, date, interval and units consistent when comparing its values with another model.

Models can disagree. A different number is another forecast perspective, not proof that one model is always better. Look at the shape of the coming hours: whether rain is concentrated in one period, whether the temperature is rising and whether stronger gusts coincide with the time you plan to be outside.

Available dates and fields depend on the selected model and provider. A model with a shorter forecast horizon may stop earlier than another. See comparing weather forecast models for a practical comparison checklist.

Choose fields and units

Forecast fields controls the rows shown in the app. Available fields include weather, temperature, feels like, precipitation, rain chance, wind, gusts, wind direction, cloud cover, humidity and pressure. Keep the fields you use together; date and hour remain part of the table.

Settings groups the forecast choices, units and main-screen display. Temperature supports Celsius and Fahrenheit; wind supports knots, metres per second, kilometres per hour and miles per hour. Precipitation supports millimetres and inches, and pressure supports hPa, inHg and mmHg.

Changing units changes how the same values are displayed. It does not change the selected point or model. You can also choose whether the daily overview and quick forecast controls appear. Resetting the main-screen display restores its display preferences while keeping saved places, the selected model and units.

Set up a useful widget

Add Weather Pro from your system’s widget gallery. The available sizes and editing options depend on the device, system version and widget surface.

On supported systems, each widget has its own place, temperature unit, wind unit, forecast interval, model and precipitation unit. This lets a home widget and a travel widget answer different questions. An explicit choice belongs to that widget; it does not change another widget’s settings.

On Mac, configure the widget independently: app settings and widget settings use separate stores. Older systems have more limited configuration. App-only field choices do not rearrange a widget’s composition.

The operating system schedules widget refreshes. A widget is a compact forecast, rather than a live sensor or a guaranteed alert. When you need to inspect the latest available forecast, open the app and use Refresh. Read choosing weather widget settings for the device-specific distinctions.

Weather on Apple Watch

The Watch app provides its own forecast view and can download data independently when it has a connection. Compatible complications put selected information on the watch face; supported formats and their settings vary by watchOS version.

Phone-to-Watch transfers also depend on the installed companion, pairing and system scheduling. If a transfer fails, use the app’s retry action. A queued transfer does not mean the Watch has received it yet.

Forecasts, with perspective

Fresh forecasts need a connection to Open-Meteo. Saved data can help you revisit information already downloaded, but it cannot provide new conditions while offline. Check the app’s forecast update time when freshness matters.

The initial app focuses on hourly forecasts and widgets. It does not provide radar, minute-by-minute rain nowcasting or rain push notifications. Consult your official local weather service for hazardous-weather warnings.

The privacy policy explains forecast coordinates, city searches and optional device location. Visit support for help with missing data, model differences or widget settings.