The app is Clime Pro on iOS, they lock full access to Hurricane Milton data behind a $10 USD per week paywall.
If you’re in the area impacted by Milton, you can find publicly available resources at the National Hurricane Center’s website: National Hurricane Center
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What data does this app have that isn’t freely available somewhere else?
Yep. Hurricane info is available from official sources for free.
However, I can’t help but imagine some tiktok of someone finding themselves trapped on a rooftop crying because their preferred app wouldn’t show some critical info.
Mike’s Weather Page is a hobbyist page that aggregates a ton of info.
It’s shitfunny because this is a perfect opportunity for apps like this to play into Capitalism and succeed twentyfold.
Open up the app to everyone for free during the hurricane, remove that after hurricane. So many people will go:
- “OMG this app is useful, I’m paying”
- “OMG that company is so kind, I’m paying”
- “OMG I didn’t even know about this but people spread the word, I’m paying!”
So many opportunities for longer-term profits missed by idiocy.
Ryan Hall is doing a Livestream on YouTube providing all day coverage of the hurricane. Several cameras up in areas that will receive the worst of it. Several meteorologists on staff, radar info and explanation, storm chasers on the ground. Pretty much all of the information you could need. Link
Project 2025 wants to disband NOAA and give its functions to Accuweather instead, directing taxpayer funding to a private company while also locking all weather data behind a paywall, so they get paid twice to provide the same info NOAA currently provides with a single payment (taxpayer funding). The Accuweather founder, Joel Myers, and his brother, Billy Lee Myers (unsuccessfully nominated by Trump to be the head of NOAA), are major Republican donors, but I’m sure that is completely coincidental.
Holy fucking shit, Accuweather?! TIL
There is nothing more tech-bro libertarian than taking free public data, wrapping it in a slick package, and selling it.
I used to think that TV weather people were obsolete, but now I’m nostalgic for the public service that survived in the old capitalistic ad based broadcast TV era.
In a hypothetical world where everyone has every comfort available and every need met,
in that world at least,
I could say:
“There is some room for wrapping something in a sleek package!“
(Maybe I’d pay a dollar if someone remade those graphs really beautifully)
I only ever check my weather on NWS, but a year or two ago they went from having easily read hourly forecast data to those obnoxious graphs. I have zero clue why they did that.
To be fair, free broadcast tv and radio is still a thing, and they are an integral part of the US’s disaster alert system. With the right equipment (read: basic cheap radio available almost everywhere), you can still listen to weather information (both general and severe) directly from the horse’s mouth 24/7 for free.
In a disaster situation, these services will still stand because they require less infrastructure per person reached than is required to deliver high-speed internet to the same number of people.
These services still exist, and will continue to, but the knowledge of them has atrophyed from disuse. They won’t go away, they’ve just been replaced in general usage because of the convenience that the internet provides us.
TL;DR: Get you a weather radio, get free weather for the life of the equipment. Even if it’s not your daily driver, get one anyways, because you’ll be able to hear the most relevant info in the worst situation.
But muh free market!
Throwing it out there, but https://www.nhc.noaa.gov is hands down the best hurricane tracking site. It’s low Bandwidth, quick, lightweight, legit data backed, and generally the source data for most other weather sites.
nhc.noaa.gov is the best for quick, up to date official info about expected impacts. Also local county and municipality pages are important to check for evacuation orders and routes.
For anyone who wants technical deep dives into the meteorology of tropical storms, I can’t recommend www.tropicaltidbits.com enough.
AccuWeather is free and provides up to date hurricane info.
If you care about having your taxpayer-funded weather accessible without going through a private, corporate middleman, you should never use AccuWeather.
(Just don’t rely on its forecasts outside the 15-day range)
Don’t rely on anything more than 3 days out.
Don’t rely on anything
don’t rely
Don’t
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Just don’t.
Don’t
dont rely on any weather forecast outside the 15-day range tbh
Free coverage from Ryan Hall Y’all on youtube. He’s livestreaming for the foreseeable future with no ads.
LightningMaps is my favorite real time weather map site.
NOAA’s National Hurricane Center is the gold standard and updates regularly.
This feels so american lmao
It’s made by “bending spoons operations”, an Italian company.
From app’s the website:
Copyright © Bending Spoons Operations S.p.A. | Via Nino Bonnet 10, 20154, Milan, Italy | VAT, tax code, and number of registration with the Milan Monza Brianza Lodi Company Register 13368510965 | REA number MI 2718456 | Contributed capital €50.000,00
They also make WeTransfer, MeetUp and Evernote
Edit: they only bought these, they didn’t make it.
The same guys who made the coronavirus app?
Didn’t know they reduced to such scummy practices.
We know the best ways to suck, even our storms!
God bless capitalism
Use a different app preferably one from F-droid
You’re not wrong, but they’re gonna have to ditch their iPhone for an Android first, LOL
Do you expect a rent seeker to provide you rent free service?
Not sure what you’re trying to say here
I’d try to help, but I’m not fully sure, either. Sorry!
Does a bear shit in the woods?
I believe they do, yes, but I’m not a bear shit professional
If bear shit, then we can assume a “capitalist” will rent seek every single time even during a disaster unless shamed by the public
Buddy this ain’t helping me at all
I will show myself out
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