Reddit reviews Big Sky

I use the Big Sky skill. It has more accurate weather.

activate the "BIG SKY" weather skill. SO much better than Alexa's stock weather... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GU4MBM4

Alexa cannot get weather "in four hours"

You can try Big Sky. You can ask things like, "What's the weather in four hours?", "Will it rain in the next 5 hours?", "What's the low temperature in the next three days."

https://skills-store.amazon.com/deeplink/dp/B01GU4MBM4

Because the skill that I have pulls data from another service ( https://darksky.net/dev/ ) pulls 42 forecast points to get an idea of the cloud cover in a grid to the west (for sunset) or east (for sunrise) to make a prediction of what the quality of the sunrise will be.

For me, 1000 requests/day isn't something I'll hit. 200 people asking "what will the sunset be like" each day and I'm starting to pay money for API calls (not to mention the cost of hosting - insignificant for me, not so much if there are more people using it).

There is already a free built in (no special invocation necessary) forecast. There are scores of other ones by local news stations (that are reminding you that its KAMZ giving you the weather). There's also already a skill that uses Dark Sky API - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GU4MBM4

If you've got the service and its the publicity that you are after, or are facilitating sales to a service (snow report for Sugarloaf mountain) - thats one thing. If you're just a random developer who would start having to pay out of pocket for strangers to use the program with no way of monetizing it - that's a completely different thing.