What The Forecast

What it does

What The Forecast is a weather app for people who want standard forecasts delivered with blunt, joke-heavy commentary. It reports current conditions, provides hourly and daily forecasts, and adds practical weather information such as alerts, air quality, and several activity and health-related indices. The tone is the main point: instead of leaving you with a temperature and a cloud icon, it gives the conditions an attitude.

Why it was selected

This app earns its place when ordinary weather summaries feel too dry to be useful or memorable. Its value is not that it replaces a serious weather service; it is that it makes checking the forecast quick, distinctive, and easier to interpret at a glance. The selectable profanity settings also make the experience adjustable, from no profanity to the app’s full-strength style.

Useful forecast detail

• Hourly forecasts covering up to 48 hours
• Daily forecasts extending to 10 days
• Weather alerts from NOAA
• Temperature, dew point, moon phase, and air-quality information
• Indices for conditions related to activities and concerns such as golf, biking, swimming, migraines, and allergies
• U.S. and international unit options, plus text-to-speech for the latest weather saying

Who it suits

Choose it if you check the weather often but prefer personality over a restrained presentation. It is especially suited to users who want a forecast they can share or listen to, and to anyone who finds a sharply worded summary more engaging than a conventional weather dashboard. It may not suit people looking for a purely professional interface or a quiet, neutral tone.

Developed by Byzantine Apps LLC, What The Forecast has a 3.96 rating from 14,028 reviews and more than 5,000,000 installs. Those figures show broad use, while the app’s reason for standing out remains clear: it turns routine weather checking into commentary with a deliberately irreverent voice.