![]() People love to complain about weather forecasts, dating back to when local-news meteorologists were the primary source for those planning their morning commutes. ![]() Dozens of times, the Apple Weather app has lulled me into a false sense of security, leaving me wet and betrayed after a run, bike ride, or round of golf. The Apple app, although not rated by ForecastAdvisor, has a reputation for off-the-mark forecasts and has been consistently criticized for presenting faulty radar screens, mixing up precipitation totals, or, as it did last week, breaking altogether. The Weather Channel’s app, by comparison, comes in at 83 percent. The cult favorite Dark Sky, for example, which shut down earlier this year and was rolled into the Apple Weather app, accurately predicted the high temperature in my zip code only 39 percent of the time, according to ForecastAdvisor, which evaluates online weather providers. At best, they perform about as well as meteorologists, but some of the most popular ones fare much worse. Weather forecasts are always a game of prediction and probabilities, but these apps seem to fail more often than they should. But there is one specific corner where technological advances haven’t kept up: weather apps. My life is a gluttonous smorgasbord of information, and I am on the all-you-can-eat plan. With three swipes, I can summon almost everyone listed in my phone and see their confused faces via an impromptu video chat. Today, I can ask a chatbot to render The Canterbury Tales as if written by Taylor Swift or to help me write a factually inaccurate autobiography. Technologically speaking, we live in a time of plenty.
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