You can’t make this stuff up:
We didn’t get half a foot of any precipitation that day.
That is apparently the “Pixel At a Glance” app using info scraped from weather-dot-com. The other Google Weather app, the one that may or may not still have the Weather Frog, scrapes info from noaa-dot-gov and seems somewhat less uncoordinated.
The two apps generally disagree on what kind and how much precipitation will occur, sometimes absurdly, and rarely agree with the official National Weather Service forecast.
Sometimes the forecasts have not converged by the time the weather arrives outside the window.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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With respect to local weather, the Nation Weather Service (https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=DD.nnnn&lon=-DD.nnnn) is frequently accurate, though microclimate issues can make things crazy in interesting terrain.
Julie prefers Weather Nation for televised weather. They have a web page, but I seldom use it.
That’s our go-to resource, too!
Somehow, light rain splits around Illinois Mountain (just a bump, really) and leaves Mary’s garden in the dry zone, but that’s not the fault of the NWS. :grin:
We see the rain/snow shadow effect regularly. Depending on where the storm is coming, our town and K-Falls will get vastly different amounts of precipitation. Or not. Our early February storms took out most of the southern half of the county.
Then Murphy decided that the backup heater needed a new gas valve. 7 hours without heat, but thermal mass for the save. New valve is almost installed, but I had to find a new pilot light fuel line. (The local service outfit is internet-challenged and stuck with default suppliers. Sigh. Good installers, though. I know my limitations, sometimes. [grin])