Best alexa weather skills according to redditors
We found 12 Reddit comments discussing the best alexa weather skills. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 12 Reddit comments discussing the best alexa weather skills. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Amazon didn't think of this when they coded it originally, and despite many complaints, hasn't gone back to fix it. There's also a degree of people being used to it like this, so changing it will result in some degree of confusion.
There are a few skills that do this, such as this one: https://www.amazon.com/Ryan-Haack-Just-The-Temperature/dp/B072DVXV8X
It's using a different source for weather data than Amazon, so the numbers might not line up, and the command is a little harder to remember, but if you really want a solution, this might be close enough.
I use the Big Sky skill. It has more accurate weather.
Alexa, Temperature Now
cos I made it :)
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You mean like this?
Just stumbled upon it last night. Haven't used it yet.
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
activate the "BIG SKY" weather skill. SO much better than Alexa's stock weather... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/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.
That is very odd in why those features are missing. I found this Weather skill, but not sure it would actually help.
I've made a post on this here.
I would say try these as your Flash Briefing for a few days:
If you created an Alexa skill, your client's brand could interact with the potential customer through the skill versus Alexa just reading the results of a wikipedia page on your client's product or a search result. Creating an Alexa skill creates a new touchpoint for your client with their customers -- it's another marketing channel. See Tide's skill and Zyrtec's allergycast (useful tool to tell people allergy forecast) for examples of what I mean. Voice commerce isn't there yet, but it probably will be one day. I think you should be able to try out the Echo simulator with an Amazon account even if you don't have an Echo/Alexa-built-in device. Try "Alexa, open Tide" and take it from there...
I use the Personal Weather Station Skill - I've not got around to setting one up at my house, but a neighbor up the road has one and it wasn't onerous to set things up. I'm happy with it.
https://skills-store.amazon.com/deeplink/dp/B07234WJ9B