Comment by jedberg
11 hours ago
It's because the current administration cut NOAAs funding, which means fewer weather balloons, which means less data to make a prediction. And it means less real time updates.
So yeah, when it rains, it might take a few hours for that to flow into your weather app.
It's a direct result of DOGE.
>and every other app I check shows it.
Other apps have a different government?
From my experience, it's quite hit and miss for every app.
If you use Google 99% of the time and only check other apps when Google is wrong, then that's a biased experiments.
That person is probably misremembering or looking later after the update.
I pull weather data from multiple apps all the time because I’m a weather nerd and they all agree equally poorly.
I've stopped using google weather here in the UK as well because of how inaccurate its been over the past few years and have just fallen back on the BBC. Maybe its related, maybe not.
Yeah, the Met Office and BBC (which I believe use data from Meteo France) are both much more accurate for "later today" weather than Google for me in London.
Google does update its forecast more frequently, and usually is as accurate as the others for the hour ahead. And the longer range 3+ day forecasts aren't noticeably worse either. It's just the intermediate 4 - 48 hour stuff that they're surprisingly terrible with, but that's exactly the time period I most care about in everyday use!
Since last year the BBC is back using the Met Office https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm4z8mple3o
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I'm interested on how you drew the cause/effect of this, is there non-biased sources? Has google said as much, and how does this explain why some models are more accurate?
There is little to no evidence that the current degradation of the US upper air backbone is regularly contributing to degraded forecast skill. That might change as we head into the more active northern hemisphere winter.
That's because NOAA are not doing the tests that would produce such evidence.
There was a lot of evidence last winter. But with the active El Niño it’s starting earlier this year.
Please share some of that evidence.
Honestly, the iOS weather app is hyper accurate I’ve found in Europe in comparison to America…
It really does come down to data source quality and access…that’s the crux of it.
This does pass the smell test. What is your evidence that DOGE has caused even one weather forecast to be less accurate?