Pixel phones are getting an actual weather app in 2024, with a bit of AI

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Customizable, but also not

There’s a prominent “AI generated weather report” on top of the weather stack, which is a combination of summary and familiarity. “Cold and rainy day, bring your umbrella and hold onto your hat!” is Google’s example; I can’t provide another one, because an update to “Gemini Nano” is pending.

You can see weather radar for your location, along with forecasted precipitation movement. The app offers “Nowcasting” precipitation guesses, like “Rain continuing for 2 hours” or “Light rain in 10 minutes.”

Widgets with weather data, including a UV index of 2, sunrise and sunset times, visibility distances, and air quality, displayed as rearrangeable widgets.

The best feature, one seen on the version of Weather that shipped to the Pixel Tablet and Fold, is that you can rearrange the order of data shown on your weather screen. I moved the UV index, humidity, sunrise/sunset, and wind conditions as high as they could go on my setup. It’s a trade-off, because the Weather app’s data widgets are so big as to require scrolling to get the full picture of a day, and you can’t move the AI summary or 10-day forecast off the top. But if you only need a few numbers and like a verbal summary, it’s handy.

Sadly, if you’re an allergy sufferer and you’re not in the UK, Germany, France, or Italy, Google can’t offer you any pollen data or forecasts. There is also, I am sad to say, no frog.

Google’s Weather app isn’t faring so well with Play Store reviewers. Users are miffed that they can’t see a location’s weather without adding it to their saved locations list; that other Google apps, including the “At a Glance” app on every Pixel’s default launcher, send you to the Google app’s summary instead of this app; the look of the weather map; and, most of all, that it does not show up in some phones’ app list, but only as a widget.

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