Weather forecasts are great at letting you know whether to grab an umbrella before leaving the house — but what if you needed to know if you had enough time to sprint to a car before a thunderstorm hit? That’s exactly the iPhone and iPad app that Adam Grossman and Jack Turner, two friends and business partners in Troy, N.Y., are hoping to build. Dark Sky, as they are calling it, is intended to be a hyperlocal forecaster that can predict the weather in short bursts of time — from 30 minutes to an hour in the future. (via Building a Weather App That Sees the (Near) Future - NYTimes.com)
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