Comment on Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather?

• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My main beef with them is they take data from the public National Weather Service and package it for profit, and they’re backing proposed legislation that would prevent the NWS from distributing their weather data directly to the public.

  Other than that, most of what AccuWeather does is make the pretty weather maps for the TV stations, and most of the way they make them pretty is by making them less accurate, complete and precise. To a pilot, for whom weather information is a critical safety tool, an AccuWeather product is a bit like a traffic light covered in a half inch thick layer of Spongebob stickers.

  The NWS is already trying to measure and predict the giant ball of chaos that is the Earth’s atmosphere with probably fewer tools than they’d like, and AccuWeather takes that data and makes it worse so that it’s prettier for TV.

  In conclusion, fuck AccuWeather.

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  • ABasilPlant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you for your answer :D! I’ll use the equivalent to our national weather service henceforth.

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