#AccuWeather app

[filehulk]

AccuWeather: Your Comprehensive Weather Companion

In today’s era of climate change, when Mother Nature’s moods become increasingly unpredictable, it’s essential to stay vigilant and keep a watchful eye on the ever-changing sky. And what better tool to rely on than a reliable mobile weather app? A top-notch weather app serves as your ultimate companion in making crucial decisions, whether it’s simply grabbing an umbrella for work or preparing for…

[teoriaespacial]

puede ser que las apps del tiempo meteorológico funcionen mal todas? ayer estaba lloviendo donde vivo y en ninguna de mis apps figuraba, solo aparecia como nublado. y así con todas las predicciones de lluvia, que las hace mal.

[c0nnverse]

i'm starting to think that the built-in weather app that motorola uses...Sucks.

i keep getting "freeze warnings". y'know. Freeze warnings. with a low of 43. in los angeles county.

[cannabiscomrade]

anticapitalist special interest dump incoming

capitalism corrupts everything it touches, even weather forecasting

US private media companies like AccuWeather and The Weather Channel take publicly available forecasting information provided by the National Weather Service, a publicly funded government service, and repackages it into their own forecast and disseminates the info.

In 2005, AccuWeather lobbied to attempt to ban The National Weather Service from sharing predictions with anyone besides commercial entities. In 2012 they successfully blocked the NWS from producing a free app for the public.

This allows there to be an inaccessible filter on free, timely, and accurate weather information and forces it to be distributed through for profit apps. Even free apps are bogged with ads and delayed alerts.

The G Word with Adam Conover covers this extensively and I highly recommend watching that episode or reading the transcript here [x] but I will sum it up, starting with an episode quote:

"Imagine a future where extreme weather warnings live behind a pay wall." In 2015, AccuWeather received warnings from the NWS that a tornado was heading towards Moore, OK, a city that has been decimated by F5/EF5 tornadoes twice. They only notified users that were paying for the app.

So what can you do about it?

Get your local forecast directly from The National Weather Service's official site weather.gov !

Follow your local meteorologists on social media, especially if you're in an active weather area.

If you're in tornado prone areas, follow storm chasers on social media and check the Convective Outlook during your tornado season.

Get a NOAA weather radio or tune to your local NWR station! They are the most reliable source of weather information in the event of a power outage and the coverage area is extensive. They cover all hazards including severe weather, wildfires, dust storms/haboobs, heat/cold warnings, and any other warnings the NWS would put out. Here is information specifically for Deaf/HOH accessibility.

[ceyhanmedya]

Things Drivers Believe Are Keeping Them Out of Radar

New Post has been published on https://hazirbilgi.com/things-drivers-believe-are-keeping-them-out-of-radar/

Things Drivers Believe Are Keeping Them Out of Radar

Most drivers who don’t want to be caught on the radar and pay huge fines resort to ridiculous methods, all of which are urban legends, from hanging CDs in their rear view mirrors to painting license plates with hairspray. So, do these methods used by thousands of people really work?

Instead of simply following the rules, people who try to deceive the radar resort to various absurd methods consisting only of urban legends . In fact, seeing the radar and making a selector for the vehicle coming from the opposite road is one of the most innocent methods among them. 

From those who wrap the car with aluminum foil like an oven-baked chicken to the drivers who buy “ghost spray” for 2 00 TL of no use, what are the absurd methods used by people who think they are deceiving the radar and can’t get rid of the punishment again , let’s see why it doesn’t work together.

Putting a CD in the rearview mirror is just an accessory

Hanging a CD in the rear view mirror of the car is one of the most frequently used methods to evade the radar, not only in Turkey but also in many countries. The reason you hang a CD in the mirror is to think that the back of the CD reflects radar flashes back .

Let’s just say that such a thing doesn’t work at all, because the radar sensors are too powerful to be kicked back by the CD. In other words, CDs do not prevent radar cameras from taking pictures of your vehicle in any way . If you go over the speed limit and try to use such a method, all you will have is a photo of you with a CD hanging from the rear view mirror. 

Pressing the brake when you see the radar doesn’t help either.

Let’s say you are on a long road, you are breaking the rules by exceeding the speed limit. Just when you are about to enjoy the song playing on the radio, when you suddenly see the radar car on the right glowing like a disco ball, you press the brakes, it does nothing but create a danger for the vehicles behind on the highway.

The reason is also very simple. Before you see the radar vehicle, the radar vehicle has already seen you and recorded your speed limit. Radars can detect the speed of vehicles on intercity roads from 1,500 meters away . Instead of pressing the brakes after seeing the vehicle, all you have to do is move towards the police vehicle waiting for you and accept your punishment.

Don’t waste hairspray, you’ll need it on vacation

Painting a license plate with hairspray is one of the urban legends to get off the radar. In fact, some people are not only fooled by these urban legends, but also pouring money on products under the name of “plate hiding spray” or “ghost spray” . After paying a fee of 200 TL for the spray , it is also worth paying the radar fine. 

Unless you paint your license plate a dark color, it is not possible in any way to prevent it from being read or confuse the radar sensors. Therefore, wherever the journey is, it is useful to use hair sprays only for their intended purpose .

You don’t need to wrap your car with aluminum foil like a solar panel. 

One of the methods used to disrupt radar sensors is to stick aluminum foil on the hood. As you can imagine, the purpose of this is to block the radar sensors , just like hanging a CD in the rear view mirror . I don’t think we need to say that aluminum foil has no effect on radar sensors either.

Fatma Yılmaz, Turkey’s only female radar police officer, uses the following statements about the operation of radar sensors; “The CDs they put in, the aluminum foil, the hairspray have no effect. Because the device we call D3 in the working system of the radar sends signals gradually. These signals measure the speed of vehicles speeding on the road with numerical data from the collision with the air. So what they do does not affect this data in any way.”

[gh0stcav3]

drinking olive oil seems like a bad idea tbh

Olive oil reblog chain

https://www.tumblr.com/okcoolthanks/764368160216498176/oh-dear-lord

It’s also in the classics post in my pinned ifyou wanna find it there

oh my god ive seen ads like this but mostly on like. my weather app for some reason??

[arctic-hands]

The dirty secret of private weather tracking sites like AccuWeather, Dark Sky, and The Weather Channel is that they get a lot of the data they use to make predictions from government sources in the U.S. and abroad. They all process the data using proprietary systems, but many of the inputs are free. That’s always bothered the people who run AccuWeather.

The privatization of weather reports is a conservative project that long predates Trump and Project 2025. In 2005, Republican Senator Rick Santorum introduced a bill aimed at forcing the NWS and NOAA to stop providing free weather reports. AccuWeather, which was headquartered in Santorum’s home state, lobbied hard for the bill. It died in committee.

AccuWeather tried again during Trump’s first presidency. Trump nominated AccuWeather CEO Barry Lee Myers to head the NOAA. Smelling a fox in the henhouse, the Senate refused to confirm him.

AccuWeather is all over Project 2025. “Each day, Americans rely on weather forecasts and warnings provided by local radio stations and colleges that are produced not by the NWS, but by private companies such as AccuWeather,” it says. “The NWS provides data the private companies use and should focus on its data-gathering services. Because private companies rely on these data, the NWS should fully commercialize its forecasting operations.”

Saw this going around in a very image-heavy post nigh impossible to caption, so here's the whole article in the link and the AccuWeather parts in the excerpt. Time to use a new app

[nickgerlich]

Finding Resolve

We’ve all done it. We are all part of this new phenomenon, something that barely existed before this century, and only truly gained momentum in the last decade. The worst part is, most of us have forgotten exactly how much we are involved with it, because it is hard to remember what and how much these phenomena cost.

I am talking about the subscription economy, that magical place where software and streaming services are the product, and our monthly bill is usually on autopay. It ranges from SOAS (Software As A Service) providers like Adobe and Microsoft, to all the music, movies, and more that we stream into our homes, cars, and mobile devices.

And it is eating us alive.How many subscriptions do you have? Let’s start with your vehicle. Do you have satellite radio? That’s one. Do you subscribe to cloud-based software? That can be one or more. What about streaming tunes like Spotify or Apple Music? There you guy. The list is getting longer.

And then there are all the streaming TV choices, which runs from services like YouTube TV to Netflix, Paramount+, Apple TV+, Peacock, Max, Hulu, Disney…I could go on. You may have cut the cable at home, but you tethered yourself in other ways to the extent that the net effect is little different.

Then there’s the gaming community, if that’s your thing. More dinero. Maybe you fell for the premium version of an app, like Accuweather. If you’re a regular Amazon shopper, you no doubt have Prime, which costs $139 a year, plus the vitamins and supplements I receive every month from them. Like listening to books? There’s Audible. Old newspapers? There’s Newspapers.com, one of my favorite sites to do research. Cloud storage? Good Lord, I have several, for my thousands of photos and documents.

So successful has the subscription model been that paywalls have appeared everywhere online, like the New York Times, Washington Post, and Atlantic Monthly, each of whom have amazing content, a feast for my eyes and brain. Alas, I have drawn the line, because I sense it has long spun out control. And if CNN goes ahead and paywalls its app and site, I guess I won’t be reading them anymore.

Because I, like many people, have subscription fatigue. I simply cannot begin to consume all of this media. Sadly, I cannot remember all of the services to which I subscribe, and if you aren’t there yet, I bet you will be soon enough. The only way to know for sure is to carefully track your credit card statements to look for monthly billing.

That, of course, is the problem, because we willingly provided our billing data so that we do not have to do this every month. As long as that credit card is valid, those providers will keep hitting your card every month. It is only when your card is about to expire that you get a notification. And if you were not careful and instead provided a bank routing and account number, they can keep sticking their hand into your pocket as long as you have that account.

Ironically, there are new subscription management software sites and apps that supposedly make it easy to track and opt-out of all the things, but they are subscription services themselves. That’s like replacing one drug with another. You’re still on the hook.

It all starts so easily, because many of the subscription services are technically just micro payments, only $5 or $10. We see that as pocket change. Other services offer annual payment options, which provide a slight discount for paying in full in advance. But many of the once-cheap micro payments have started to get expensive, like Netflix and Spotify (I am speaking from experience). They are no longer minor indulgences.

Were these tangible products we had to buy in a store, I bet we would all be a lot more careful. The friction of having to be somewhere to even just tap your credit card would probably be enough to cause us to think. But it is simply too easy in the digital world to keep subscribing, because once we get in that loop, there is never any friction.

We are all going to have to muster a lot more resolve to win this fight, as well as start keeping meticulous records. Otherwise, these things develop lives of their own, lives that will continue hitting credit cards even after our own lives are over. I’m pretty sure none of us will be consuming anything at that point, and there’s no use paying for it.

We don’t have to wait for New Years Day to make this resolution.

Dr “I Honestly Can’t Remember All Of Them” Gerlich

Audio Blog

[aintmyjewelry]

please please please please please if you are gonna check the weather, use your local news station's app. most major city news stations have their own news app and/or weather app and deliver the same sort of news and radars they would deliver on the air, which can sometimes be more accurate as it is curated toward your area and they are focusing on your area. other weather apps (e.g., accuweather and the weather channel) are fantastic but I always check multiple apps to get a better idea of what to expect

[otteroflore]

my partner works outside so we've been paying attention to the air quality reports because the smoke from canada has been causing bad air quality all week in illinois. I happened to mention it to my aunt and she called me back today and asked where i found the information and said her kids have a softball game today. apparently the app she uses for weather doesnt show the air quality number and doesnt clearly indicate the level.

accuweather shows:

in her region, so im surprised they didnt cancel the softball thing already. Two of her kids have breathing issues, I think one has asthma, so she's gonna call the park district where its going on.

it just makes me think like, my aunt is generally very attentive to stuff going on that could make the kids sick (or my grandparents, who she lives with and could also be impacted by this); i wonder how many other people arent aware of whats going on because it doesnt look too bad outside.

i mean, its not like the sky is orange like in NYC or black with smoke like in Canada where the fires actually are but if you pay attention you can smell stuff in the air at certain times and theres a slight fog in the distance. but it still feels like there should be a more significant emphasis on this on the news, and also how to stay safe. like my partner is wearing a mask working outdoors but we dont even know what works best.

[krill-joy]

if you live in the u.s. and want an ad-free and data heavy weather app you gotta check out the NWS Weather App. It is NOT an official NWS app because the National Weather Service does not have the money, time, infrastructure to run an app, but it does pull all the data from the NWS and present it in a similar way to AccuWeather, etc.

[wanderinginksplot]

The AccuWeather-Project 2025 connection is something I wouldn't have guessed. It's also disappointing and devastating, since now I have to find another halfway reliable weather app. 😠

Update - I researched the connection between AccuWeather and Project 2025. This is one of the top results: https://www.accuweather.com/en/press/accuweather-does-not-support-project-2025-plan-to-fully-commercializing-nws-operations-noaa-has-critical-role-in-american-weather-enterprise/1670156

There was a big enough backlash that AccuWeather publicly denies supporting the weather-related parts of Project 2025. And, judging from the bizarre phrasing of the headline, they felt the need to deny it quickly.

Do I believe the CEO? No. Am I going to keep looking for another forecasting tool? Absolutely. But I also think it's both funny and important that Project 2025 is such a hot mess that people have to distance themselves from it or face public backlash.

If Republicans keep claiming to represent the "silent majority", this is undeniable proof that they are, and have always been, fucking liars.

Reminder: the companies and political entities pushing Project 2025 have addresses and go out to lunch a lot and should never eat a spitless meal for the rest of their lives.

Practice bagpipes outside their secure compounds.

Follow them around ringing a bell wherever they go.

If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.

Also, vote. It might just kick the ball down the road a bit, but that gives people more time to organize a concerted resistance (in no way on any social media platform) to the fascist creep happening in America. It is possible to take this country from the bastards who control it, it will take work, effort, and occasionally going offline and talking to humans though.

[arctic-hands]

[Image Description: a Special Weather Alert on the app AccuWeather. On the top it has a map of Maryland. In allcaps, it says "...Increased fire danger in Northeast Maryland from dry conditions and dry thunderstorms through this evening..." Following that, it continues in regular type, "The combination of low relative humidity, breezy west to northwest winds, and dry fine fuels will lead to an elevated risk for fire spread today with any potential fire ignitions today. Isolated dry thunderstorms possible in Northeast Maryland this–" the rest is cut off. End I.D.]

Oh what is this West Coast shit

[exceptionerroralex]

the AccuWeather app owners are in on this too btw and are supporting project 2025. time to delete AccuWeather too.

NOAA “should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories,” Project 2025 reads. The proposals roughly amount to two main avenues of attack. First, it suggests that the NWS should eliminate its public-facing forecasts, focus on data gathering, and otherwise “fully commercialize its forecasting operations,” which the authors of the plan imply will improve, not limit, forecasts for all Americans. Then, NOAA’s scientific-research arm, which studies things such as Arctic-ice dynamics and how greenhouse gases behave (and which the document calls “the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism”), should be aggressively shrunk. “The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded,” the document says. It further notes that scientific agencies such as NOAA are “vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims,” so appointees should be screened to ensure that their views are “wholly in sync” with the president’s.

Climate change is the single most important issue in the entirety of human history. One party wants to fight it. The other party wants to let the earth burn; in fact, they want to accelerate the fire.

[fromdevcom]

A weather API can overhaul the functionality of almost any mobile app or website, giving users more reason to keep coming back time and again. Indeed a diverse ecosystem of standalone apps has emerged, along with rival data sources to populate each with information. Of course to take full advantage of all that weather APIs have to offer, you need to be able to add one. To get you pointed in the right direction, here are some of the most important steps in this process. Choose the Right Weather API Before you rush ahead and integrate the first weather API you encounter, it pays to give some serious thought to which one of the many popular options you should actually harness in the first place. There are lots of great weather APIs to check out over at Rapid API, each of which has its own positives and negatives to weigh up. For example, if you are looking for the ultimate in forecasting, you might consider the OpenWeatherMap API, which has the added benefit of being free to use in its most basic form, so long as you are willing to settle for the limit of 1000 calls per day that is put in place on basic accounts. Alternatively you might have imaging higher up your list of priorities, in which case the AccuWeather API might be a better fit. In fact this all-encompassing platform has several distinct APIs, meaning you can pick and choose the ones that make most sense for your needs, rather than going all-in unnecessarily. Once you have chosen an API to use, you will need to create an account and make use of the API key provided in order to start the next phase of the process and gain access to data from the service that can be used in your app or website. Integrate the API with Your Website or App This is the point at which you will need to fall back on your own technical expertise, or seek out the assistance of an experienced developer in order to make sure that your weather API of choice can be seamlessly integrated with your website or app. In the case that you are hoping to leverage the API in a website or an application for Android-powered devices, you can expect to rely on JavaScript to carry out this implementation. The best API provision platforms will simplify and accelerate the act of creating the correct code snippets by automating the bulk of the work for you, which is obviously convenient. Whilst you are working on this, be sure to adjust key functions to make sure that they are in line with the kind of usage you can expect to actually require from the API itself. For example, in the case of the OpenWeatherMap API mentioned earlier, there is no point in making calls to it more frequently than once every 10 minutes, since this is the frequency with which the data it offers is updated. Keep Checking Performance One vital aspect of integrating a weather API with your website or app that you might overlook is the need to test and check up on this implementation on a regular basis. This will help you pinpoint any issues which might arise and remedy them before they cause consternation amongst users. Key metrics such as the average latency of popular APIs, as well as the typical success rate for calls made by third parties, can give you an indication of how reliable and responsive each will be. In turn, this can assist you in spotting aberrations in performance so that solutions can be pursued, rather than allowing issues to linger unchecked.