...I don't understand... who is *THEM*? Did you forget to "put /s" in your useless response?
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Apple Weather App Now Offers Next-Hour Precipitation Notifications on iPhone in Australia
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The *THEM* are professional meteorologists. /s
What I more or less heard about Dark Sky is it was too accurate and professional meteorologists were up in arms because it empowered everyday people.
Maybe it's a conspiracy, maybe it's not. Either way we had something really nice for a time and it was killed off with money.
okay...I get it now. And it sucks how "money" makes the rules nowdays...
Money, time, people, circumstances. I was getting a little towards conspiracy before.
Could just as easily be that Dark Sky's modeling worked really well for a time but didn't account for some patterns or geographies and the necessary changes to make those things work "broke" it for others. Or a rockstar weather software engineer moved on to something else.
It's also about presentation. For my area Apple Weather says 30% chance of thunderstorms for the day. Click to the hourly forecast and it shows instead 30% chance between 7 and 8PM. Life isn't a farming simulator game with only one kind of weather for the whole day.
The very best "weather" app is Windy. It was designed for professionals in the field. it is available everywhere for Apple and Android. one of the overlays is a wildfire map.
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As others have said in this thread, Apple only sources data from BOM in relation to warnings. It’s the Weather Channel for temperature and forecasts.
Why are their temperatures different? They may get some if their data from the BOM but not the temps
Check the differences in the graphic I added. They were screenshots within a minute of each other and they may as well be 2 different parts of the country.
Here, this is Melbourne right now. The Weather App is clearly different from the BOM (BOM is first)
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Yes, or pay a subscription to weatherzone. The Bureau’s app when it originally came out was hopeless, but recent iterations are much better.
Colder where I am in Launceston, Tasmania. In the minus yesterday.
The Weather App does have some nice features, but the recent BOM upgrade has been really good.
It hasn't been 100% every time but, most of the time it is fine, which is why I said fairly. I think you were reading too much into my post. If the app was 50% accurate, I wouldn't have bought it. Like I said, if offered a plethora of sources.
Human sacrifices to Quetzalcoatl is a more accurate predictor of when you will get rain.
I received a notification that light rain would hit at 7:41am this morning, and was not surprised to leave the house and find that it was not raining, nor did it rain on my commute.
So the feature isn’t off to a great start.
So the feature isn’t off to a great start.
Australia iOS Weather uses BOM data.
Feature availability and data sources in the Weather app - Apple Support
Learn more about regional availability and data sources for features in the Weather app.
As I said earlier in the thread, only for warnings. BoM were forecasting a 0% chance of rain at the same time as Apple were notifying me it would rain (but didn’t).
I’m on the 17 beta, and the data in both apps is completely different.
The BoM app says it’s 12 degrees in East Melbourne, which is the forecast daily maximum, while Apple Weather says it’s 13 heading for 14. BoM says 50% chance of rain, Apple Weather says it’s 90%.
So it’s not BoM data.
The BoM app says it’s 12 degrees in East Melbourne, which is the forecast daily maximum, while Apple Weather says it’s 13 heading for 14. BoM says 50% chance of rain, Apple Weather says it’s 90%.
So it’s not BoM data.
You're 100% wrong. The MAIN data source for all weather in Australia, is the BoM. Stop listening to others as uiue source of info, as they are wrong. I know this first hand.
Thats misinformation. @kkee is 100% correct.