{"id":25601,"date":"2023-04-10T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=25601"},"modified":"2023-04-10T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:20:24","slug":"the-atlantic-the-problem-with-weather-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/04\/the-atlantic-the-problem-with-weather-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic: The Problem With Weather Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you use weather apps to get your local forecast or to track severe weather or rain for planning purposes? Do you sometimes get frustrated when they are not accurate? I don&#8217;t use most of them often except for radar apps, since I spend most of my time at a computer and can access the raw computer model output, although for forecasts I usually just rely on the National Weather Service. But some apps are much better than others, and <em>The Atlantic<\/em> has a really<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2023\/04\/weather-apps-forecast-predictions-information-overload\/673648\/\"> good article<\/a> this week on why all weather apps are not made the same way and why some are more accurate than others. If you are interested, take a look and see what you think. They don&#8217;t provide links to any particular apps, but I have previously posted blog articles about some recommended apps. You can see a list of previous posts at <a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?s=apps&amp;search-type=local\">https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?s=apps&amp;search-type=local<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/08\/nws-mobile-HomeScreen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/08\/nws-mobile-HomeScreen.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/08\/nws-mobile-HomeScreen.png 400w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/08\/nws-mobile-HomeScreen-300x260.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use weather apps to get your local forecast or to track severe weather or rain for planning purposes? Do you sometimes get frustrated when they are not accurate? I don&#8217;t use most of them often except for radar apps, since I spend most of my time at a computer and can access the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":17665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25603,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601\/revisions\/25603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}