SOFT DAY · IRISH WEATHER · iPHONE, iPAD, APPLE WATCH
Ireland's forecast, accurately.
The most accurate short-range weather there is for Ireland, from the people who write it. On a sky that looks like the one outside your window.
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The forecaster's words
“Tomorrow will be a bright day with plenty of sunshine and some scattered showers. Highest temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees, with a moderate to fresh northwesterly breeze.” Met Éireann, Dublin, one morning in October
Every morning, a forecaster at Met Éireann writes a paragraph for your part of the country. Soft Day puts it at the centre of the screen, unedited.
It is better prose than any app would generate, and it is the single most useful thing about Irish weather that most apps leave out.
Why it is more accurate
Irish weather is made over the Atlantic, and it changes by the hour.
Most weather apps blend global models that treat Ireland as a few grid squares. They are fine for a week-ahead feel, and often wrong about this afternoon. Soft Day comes straight from the national service.
A model built for Ireland
Met Éireann runs a 2.5 kilometre model over the country several times a day. Your neighbourhood, not your county.
Forecasters on duty
People check the model against the radar around the clock and write down what they actually expect.
The honest resolution
Rain is called by the hour, because that is what can honestly be known. No pretend minute-by-minute.
The sky
Overcast feels overcast. Dawn looks like dawn.
A shader paints the sky from the sun's position, the cloud cover and the condition. Nothing is a photograph, and nothing is stock.
Widgets
On the Lock Screen, the Home Screen and your wrist.
Every widget is painted from the same sky as the app, so a glance at the Lock Screen matches a glance out of the window.
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LOCK SCREENThe sky, a temperature ring against today's low and high, and rain: “IN 4H”, “NOW” or “DRY”, with when it starts or stops.
HOME SCREENThe sky and the coming hours. When rain is two hours off or already falling, the same widget turns into the next twelve hours of it, one bar per hour, and back again when it clears. The forecaster's words in full with Soft Day Plus.
APPLE WATCHThe same three as complications, in every slot, corners included. The watch fetches its own forecast, so it does not need the phone nearby.
Soft Day Plus · €2.99, once
Soft Day Plus
Tell me when there's a dry spell lasting at least 4 hours between 9:00 and 18:00, every day. Say it at 7:30.
Moments. Pick what to watch for, dry, rain, sunshine, frost, wind or the temperature, and the sentence fills itself in. Every blank is yours to change. One notification a day, at the time you choose, about the hours ahead of it: say it at 18:00 and it tells you about tomorrow. Silence when there is nothing to say.
Your places. Home, work, the parents. Swipe between them.
The forecaster's words as a Home Screen widget. Everything else in Soft Day is free, always.
No ads. No account. No tracking.
Only a position rounded to a few kilometres ever leaves your phone, and only to Met Éireann, to fetch the forecast.
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