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Apple Weather's forecasts are so bad my meteorologist made a post about it

spacecityweather.com Excessive heat continues, and despite what your weather app says it’s not going to rain

Good morning. Since the forecast is pretty much unchanged—expect very hot and sunny weather for the foreseeable future—I want to briefly address a question I’ve received several times. And th…

Apple Weather forecasts for my area have shown a 30-50% chance of precipitation for eternity, even when there isn't a cloud in sight. My meteorologist has told his readers to ignore Apple's forecasts.

This started around the time the Apple Weather outages a few months ago and haven't improved. YSK that you can report inaccurate forecasts from within the app, but it hasn't improved for me.

I'm currently using Foreca on iPhone and the free version of Carrot on Apple Watch.

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Is this even a localized problem or all throughout the US/World? I'm in southeast Texas, USA.
- germany here, apple's weather app forecast storm, rain and the end of the world for my wedding...
  
  Was a lovely summer day, not too hot with some clouds and sunshine. So yeah...apples weather app sucks on a global scale.
  
  Congrats on the wedding :)
  
  thanks 😊
- I'm in Queensland, Australia, and it seems to say there's no chance of rain at all, as there's thick clouds above my head seconds from drenching me, and sure enough, I start getting drenched.

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