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  • Why I No Longer Trust Google Weather

    You can’t make this stuff up:

    Google Weather App - precipitation puzzle
    Google Weather App – precipitation puzzle

    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.