I understand that weather on TV can’t be hyperlocally accurate. But a weather app on my phone has my exact GPS coordinates. Why can’t it tell me exactly when a rain cloud will be passing over my location?

It’s gotten to the point where I just use precipitation maps to figure out my rain chances for the day.

The hourly forecast is mostly useless because it’s not a chance % but a % of the area that will be raining.

      • @kitnaht
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        2 months ago

        Reading Snopes will give you plenty. Read the articles - and a lot of them use weasel-wording to push the result they want.

        I don’t have the exact article on hand at the moment, but an example would be someone claiming that clear-cutting 1000 acres of trees would destroy [X]^3 of CO2 reduction; and then Snopes will “fact check” it by saying they aren’t cutting down 1000 acres of trees this year. Often times they’ll ‘debunk’ something that sounds like the claim, but isn’t the actual claim.

        • AmidFuror
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          82 months ago

          That’s not a correct understanding of how Snopes works. They debunked this.

          • @kitnaht
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            We’ve investigated ourselves, and have found nothing wrong!

            • @TheTetrapod
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              I think you just restated their joke.

    • @linearchaos
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      62 months ago

      yeah, never mind the references in the article where they pointed out the evidence for their conclusions. :P