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totalimmortal_ t1_j9mi9ht wrote

I do not doubt you at all and appreciate your accuracy, but genuinely curious behind the “why” of your comment of the information from our phone app is trash. Are the sources behind Apple’s Weather app not accurate or trusted and would you recommend a different App?

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TheCloudBoy OP t1_j9mp3su wrote

A good question! Your phone app is using some deterministic model or a "hodge-podge" of gridded products to deliver your forecast, all of which are likely low-resolution and a single forecast.

You immediately run into problems with that approach because we live in a state with many climates (which requires high resolution data), models have biases as they're run deeper into a forecast period, and single model forecasts don't show potential uncertainty like what I've been doing here the past few days.

The company I work for is developing a solution to this issue, I'll recommend whichever app takes our data in the future :)

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