Which are the two? NOAA and what else?
Comment on Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather?
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For one thing, there’s two competing weather services providing the data to countless apps in the US and one of them has more money to throw around than the other.
The weather channel has better weather predictions overall than Apple’s own weather app, as rated by Forecastadvisor.com, but is not as accurate as Accuweather is although it’s used in more apps.
Hawke@lemmy.world 1 month ago
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
NOAA is one, the US armed Forces is the other. Not including info provided from other weather agencies outside the US.
tyler@programming.dev 1 month ago
All of those weather services just pull data from NOAA. There’s no competition, besides making up stuff beyond what NOAA predicts.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If all the private company weather services were only getting their info from the NOAA we wouldn’t have such varying results most of the time. Which is basically my point. The results vary because they don’t just use the NOAA’s data and predictions. The second one is actually the US Armed Forces.
tyler@programming.dev 1 month ago
Their results vary because, like I said, they just make shit up. They have their own formulas using NOAA and other government data, but they’re still just making it up to look like they provide value so you’ll pay for their services. There’s other global weather models, like ECMWF, but they’re all government orgs. Windy has a great article on it. windy.app/…/ecmwf-vs-gfs-differences-accuracy.htm…
If your app doesn’t tell you where it’s getting its data from then it’s using GFS from NOAA and it’s charging you for the free data it gets from there.