Thousands of these events occur around the world each day, and there isn’t the human infrastructure to provide individual attention to each event. The attention of these on-staff meteorologists is typically dedicated to weather events that are harder for computers to predict-such as rain storms, snow storms, and hurricanes. Generally speaking, this makes information about mild weather reliable and accessible on a global scale. “We have over 125 expert meteorologists at Accuweather, and they’re able to hone in on specific impacts and enhance those forecasts even further.” “Our system is able to ingest all of that information and automatically generate forecasts for any point on the planet,” Porter said.
But this doesn’t stop actual human meteorologists from shouldering the blame when the apps get it wrong. According to Birmingham-based meteorologist James Spann, less human oversight makes forecasts more fallible. Weather apps often rely on forecast algorithms alone, without the supervision of human meteorologists. Minute-to-minute weather forecasts are fake, say meteorologists, and they would like the world to know they have nothing to do with them, thank you very much. Basically, there’s no reliable way for users to get vetted weather information on their phones.
That’s where the weather app gets its data from, right?Īs it turns out, weather apps rarely even consult with meteorologists, and there are no rules in place regulating how stock weather apps, or the hundreds of self-described “weather” apps on the iOS App Store and Google Play, create forecasts. Your first instinct is to blame local meteorologists for blowing it. It’s a familiar story: a weather app says to expect several inches of snow, but there’s actually just tepid rain, or nothing at all.
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