Comment by burkaman
3 years ago
> do I make any decisions based on what my weather app is telling me? No.
Do you not ever go outside? I can't imagine not caring about the forecast, I make decisions based on it every single day.
3 years ago
> do I make any decisions based on what my weather app is telling me? No.
Do you not ever go outside? I can't imagine not caring about the forecast, I make decisions based on it every single day.
Sure. All the time - I'm a runner, a walker, I have teen kids who like walking, we have a dog. But is any of this really changed by knowing it's going to rain? Nope. I stick my nose out on a morning - if it's cold, I put on a warm coat. If it's going to rain, I put on something rainproof. No need for an app. Or, sadly, a chart or a graph...
How do you know if it's going to rain? And how do you know what the temperature will be midday based on how it feels in the morning? I'm honestly just curious, these things are very variable in all the places I've lived. The presence or absence of clouds is not a great predictor of rain, and depending on the day it might be 20 degrees warmer in the afternoon or 0 degrees warmer.
Obviously I can imagine living without a weather app, but I genuinely can't imagine having one but not finding it useful. One of the things people loved about Dark Sky was not just knowing whether it is or isn't going to rain, but that it's going to rain in precisely 35 minutes, I have time to bike to the store instead of driving. I used this a lot and it was very accurate.
I guess I'm fairly relaxed about it - I mean, I can tell if it's going to rain imminently because it ...feels like it.
Don't get me wrong, I did love DS and the accuracy was insane - it's just that my wife pointed out that I probably don't actually need to know this stuff. As she would say - "does it really matter?" - I mean, if I get wet, so what? I think over time I've come to agree with her :-)