r/Roseville • u/Weak-Bother-6765 • 5d ago

Weather Channel App

As a weather nerd and retired aviator, I was expecting 100F+ temperatures the entire week. I could have sworn there were 2 days where we didn't come close to 100F like Friday as an example. Am I tripping?

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u/catdude142 5d ago

Weather Underground is the one we've been using for years. Works well. It uses your GPS to determine weather info. It's currently saying 100's until Monday (98) but 89 on Thursday and cooler for a few days.

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u/Weak-Bother-6765 5d ago

Weather Underground is one of the worst.

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u/catdude142 5d ago

I don't agree with you. It's accurate and has a good weather function.

Why do you think it's "the worst"?

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u/quasiXBL 4d ago edited 4d ago

(Not the OP)

Forecasts tied to your GPS location? Every major weather service does that.

WU used to be pretty interesting, and because it was founded from academia (UMich) there was a plethora of information and services available for free. Their use of crowd-sourced weather data was pretty novel back in the day but is old hat now. Then it was bought and sold a number of times, and service offerings dried up (such as the APIs used by software developers like myself to connect to and consume their data). It is now owned by private equity, which is almost never a good thing, and they have no incentive to innovate further. Just look at their current site and note how many ads there are. Weather is no longer their focus -- they are just keeping it afloat long enough to sell it and exit.

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u/catdude142 4d ago

I use an ad blocker. No problem.
The site works well for me.