MS Weather Apps is very inaccurate!

MS Weather Apps is very inaccurate! It is often about 32 f to 40 f here in Oregon, and the app will say it is 10 degrees warmer... same today, 32 outside and app say 41 f. This has been going on since the app was released!!!

I have my weather app set with a default location rather than letting it detect my location. Weather>settings cog>general tab.
For me, it's always within a degree of my thermometer reading.

retiredat44 said:

MS Weather Apps is very inaccurate! It is often about 32 f to 40 f here in Oregon, and the app will say it is 10 degrees warmer... same today, 32 outside and app say 41 f. This has been going on since the app was released!!!

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Have you ever noticed if you watch a local channel weather show that the readings will be higher or lower than your surroundings, do you have a personal weather station other than the MS app?

It's b/c these shows or apps take the reading from the official NWS closest to your location. Do you have the ability to change the NWS weather station in the app?

I can see that interior Oregon is mostly ~ 32° to 40° but there's Coos Bay that's 47°

Where I live my temps are always 5 to 10° lower than the official site and it's only 10miles away.

In New Mexico, it is is very common for on-line, tv, and radio weather reports to seem to be very inaccurate, as they cannot take into account the major differences in climate often within a few miles. At one time, WeatherUnderground had a reporting station on the local grade school, which was removed during the expansion to add grades seven and eight; they then had a station at house only a few miles from our home. We were getting localized weather reports, which more often than not were not the same, sometimes not even closely related to those from the airport or even WeatherUnderground's station in town.

Now, the only governmental weather station is at the Santa Fe Regional Airport. It is not at all unusual for that station to report snow in Santa Fe while the suni is shining at home, perhaps ten miles apart. (I don't know for certain, as one cannot get from one to the other in anything resembling a straight line.)

Not long after we moved here, we were watching television one morning to see if the school bus route, or even the entire local school system, would be closed due to snow. There was no such announcement until I called the transportation director to report that I had just measured the snow depth as sixteen inches, at the time that the city of Santa Fe had noting even close to that. Based on my call, schools, and practically everything else closed for the day.

I found out the reason for the heavy snow around us, a typical New Mexico localized climate: The storm was located on the east slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountains; we were not far from the west slope. What had happened was that the storm moved through Glorieta Pass, rather close to us, and when it reached the west side of the range, the change in climate was such that it snowed very intensely over a relatively small area, including the land around our home.

retiredat44 said:

MS Weather Apps is very inaccurate! It is often about 32 f to 40 f here in Oregon, and the app will say it is 10 degrees warmer

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And it's MS's fault because MS controls the NWS,
and it's MS's fault because MS controls the weather.


Merry Christmas,
Denis

This app is a mess since it was upgraded to a web page full of unrelated advertising.

PurSpyk!! said:

since it was upgraded to a web page full of unrelated advertising

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My weather app doesn't have one ad on it so you're looking at something different than I am.

glasskuter said:

My weather app doesn't have one ad on it so you're looking at something different than I am.

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Click on the various sections of the app, adverts will appear on the right hand side

It's Christmas Eve... day!

Ghot said:

It's Christmas Eve... day!

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In 4 hours we will be in Xmas here.

Still Xmas Eve, Eve here

A Guy

@PurSpyk!! I can click and expand all over the weather page and not see any ads. I can click on any section in left toolbar and not see any ads until I get down to "Health & Safety". There I see one ad. I never go to that section. Mine stays on forecast.

glasskuter said:

@PurSpyk!! I can click and expand all over the weather page and not see any ads. I can click on any section in left toolbar and not see any ads until I get down to "Health & Safety". There I see one ad. I never go to that section. Mine stays on forecast.

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Any sort of ad should not be in the app, no matter where it is shown. Odd how I have an ad under the Hourly Forecast section

I wish there was a way that we could all know the exact location that there will be rain, I wonder how technology and AI isn't there yet (or maybe it is?)..

also nice article in UK

The BBC app works and is available world wide. Very easy to use -- and on phones too.
Cheers
jimbo

It's almost time to watch the movie Fatman again... with Mel Gibson favorite actor.

Netweather.tv has very localised forecasts, for every 500 metres, and a good radar page that shows whether rain, sleet, hail or snow is on the way. But it only covers the UK.

Windy.com has some great wind animations