{"id":5628,"date":"2019-11-20T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2021-02-18T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T17:51:42","slug":"why-are-weather-apps-still-so-unreliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/2019\/11\/20\/why-are-weather-apps-still-so-unreliable\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Weather Apps Still So Unreliable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Eric Floehr, founder of\u00a0ForecastWatch, tells<strong>\u00a0Mic <\/strong>that each app gets its forecast from different places, utilizing different prediction models and relying on different meteorologists to interpret the data. &#8220;The big weather apps like AccuWeather, The Weather Channel and Dark Sky all create their own forecasts,&#8221; Floehr explains. Some of those services also sell their forecasts, which apps like Yahoo&#8217;s weather service and WeatherBug repackage in their own app \u2014 but that doesn&#8217;t guarantee agreement, either.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mic.com\/p\/why-are-weather-apps-still-so-unreliable-18844893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Floehr, founder of\u00a0ForecastWatch, tells\u00a0Mic that each app gets its forecast from different places, utilizing different prediction models and relying on different meteorologists to interpret the data. &#8220;The big weather apps like AccuWeather, The Weather Channel and Dark Sky all create their own forecasts,&#8221; Floehr explains. Some of those services also sell their forecasts, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}