Your best Google weather app alternatives (and what I recommend instead)

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• The Google Weather app now points to search results.
• Pixel Weather (the app exclusive to Pixel phones) isn't changing.
• Local news station apps are your best bet for accurate forecasts.

If you've used the Google weather app (technically a widget on your home screen) to check the forecast recently, you might have noticed a change. Instead of a visually pleasing rundown of the temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation, you get Google Search results for "weather" instead. This change has apparently been in the works for a while, but 9to5Google recently noticed it's now widespread. 

The information is mostly the same, but it's definitely a little easier to digest the old way. So what's changed?

Google hasn't offered an explanation, but I have reached out to ...