THE WEATHER APP IS INACCURATE !

Your answer is silly. Android vs iPhone…

My mom has an iPhone also, but is an older version, and on her phone the weather is more accurate than it is on mine. It shows a difference of about +5 Celsius degrees, so that’s a lot. Mine shows rain when it actually doesn’t, and sunny and cloudy weather when it actually rains!

I have seen a clear sunny day forecast turn into a severe T-storm alert in as little as 20 minutes with pop-up storms. Since I want to know what is coming, not just forecast, I have RadarScope Pro on my Apple TV and iPhone.

These are user-supported communities where neither Apple nor Apple product teams participate. We certainly cannot explain internal Apple business or product planning.

Why the weather may be inaccurate is that the closest (real) weather reporting station may not even be within several miles of your location and the data is never in real-time. And the source of that data may be in yet another state.

I live 5 miles from an AirPort with a National Weather Service (NWS) reporting code. I use an NWS app on my iPhone that shows the weather reports from the airport. Depending on the weather, there may be a thunderstorm over the airport and not at my location, different cloud cover, temperature, wind, and humidity. I rarely use the Apple Weather application as its variance is usually worse than the app I currently use.

This surprises you? We have five main, local stations here. You can watch each one at the same time of day and get four different reports of what the current temp is, and an entirely different forecast.

As meteorologists have explained about a billion times, weather is extremely difficult to forecast. There are just too many variables that can change by a little, or a lot in an hour. Sometimes less.

There are at least dozens of weather services these various apps use to pull their data from. That data is then presented to the screen.

Being on an Android has nothing to do with accuracy. Zero. None. It's all in the connected service they use.

And as I said above, I use a local TV station's radar app to see where it's currently raining. That of course is always accurate since it's always up-to-date information. Or, I go to their web site under the weather tab, which shows the same radar.

In other words, you have multiple options to get the information you want. You don't have to use one particular app. And in case you missed it, weather is fickle. Even if the radar shows a good thunderstorm moving my way, that doesn't mean it will even reach me before it fizzles out.

Elphi7 wrote:

Your answer is silly. Android vs iPhone…

Why is suggesting someone buy the tool that best meets their needs "silly"? The person to whom I was replying seemed to think that Androids do a better job with weather.

The entire weather reporting industry is inaccurate, and a weather app is subordinate to it.

Same here. I have a dedicated weather app on my iPad from one of our local stations. Then I can call it up at any time to see the current radar.

NTarducci wrote:

I’m not an Andriod fan but their app’s are accurate till the minute it says it’s going to rain.

If you are not happy with the weather app Apple provides, there are thousands of others in the App Store. I would suggest that you find out where the app you are so happy with on the Android phone gets its data and then download an app that uses the same data source

Or, just get an Android. Apparently, they are better....