Weather app is 10-15 degrees off from The Weather Channel where it gets its data. Apple refuses to fix after user reports back to at least 2019.

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Weather app is 10-15 degrees off from The Weather Channel where it gets its data. Apple refuses to fix after user reports back to at least 2019.

The iOS Weather app supposedly pulls its data from The Weather Channel. As you can see by my screen shots for both apps, these temperatures are very off. The temperatures on the iOS Weather app can be a 10-15 degree variation from The Weather Channel which is usually accurate. I reached out to apple about this over a year ago. They provided phone troubleshooting for a while and continued to escalate my ticket but eventually just stopped calling me back. This has been going on for me over two years. I saw another user posted the same problem in 2019 and it was inaccurately marked as resolved..

I rely on the weather predications daily. Having the weather on my wrist via my Apple Watch would be extremely handy If it were accurate. Unfortunately, the data being transferred to my watch is the bad data coming from my phone.

Also, you can see by the final picture, the data coming to the watches aren’t even the same!

This has happened through numerous iPhone and Apple Watch models.

Posted on Oct 30, 2022 4:56 AM

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Oct 30, 2022 11:42 AM in response to jk2563

In that iOS Weather app, scroll all the way to the bottom it where it says:

Weather for ____

Learn more about weather data and map data. That links to:

Feature availability and data sources in the Weather app - Apple Support

and that page has a link to: Check the weather on iPhone - Apple Support

When you read over these two links, you see that Apple is providing weather info from national weather services (not necessarily the National Weather Service), or the Weather Channel, and the Weather Channel suggests it is getting weather information from Apple. How's that for circular disinformation?

This is precisely why I check the National Weather Service data at my local airport where I can see the date/time of the last reading and a more accurate representation of the weather.

And sure enough, when I enter Ravenna, OH in the National Weather Service page, it provides the current weather at the Akron Airport. At 1:54 p.m. today, that temp was 62°F. Your forecasts are however, coming from Cleveland.

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Oct 30, 2022 5:02 AM in response to jk2563

You might find this article of some interest, even if it doesn’t directly address your issue:

Feature availability and data sources in the Weather app - Apple Support

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Oct 30, 2022 7:48 AM in response to jk2563

It may be delivering the temp from the nearest major weather node such as Cleveland or Akron, but still reporting Ravenna. The Weather Channel sourced temperature (whether Mac or iOS/iPadOS) is usually 3 - 5 degrees higher than the local airport temperature sourced from the National Weather Service that uses the airport (5 miles away) as its data source. Worse, it forecasts rain occuring in x minutes and nothing could be further from actual reality.

I don't see Apple having any authority over IBM's Weather channel or its reporting accuracy.

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Oct 30, 2022 8:30 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thank you, VikingOSX. I appreciate the response. Apple, however, confirms that their Weather app pulls its data from The Weather Channel which usually pretty accurate. So if it is pulling from The Weather Channel, why doesn't it report the exact same numbers as The Weather Channel?

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Oct 31, 2022 4:16 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thank you, VikingOSX. Each of the many times I spoke with apple support before they stopped calling me back, they always said their weather was pulled from The Weather Channel. Either way, however they are doing it now, the weather app and compilation (is it?) on my watch is useless because the data provided is so inaccurate. Thanks for the information! I wish #1 that it would be accurate. #2, since that isn't an option, I wish I could choose where the data is being pulled from - like the little local airport just a mile or so from my house. Thanks again for the information.

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Weather app is 10-15 degrees off from The Weather Channel where it gets its data. Apple refuses to fix after user reports back to at least 2019.

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