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iOS 15 Weather app says it’s gonna sprinkle … ignores TORNADO warnings?

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cornycopier

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Aug 13, 2014
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So I’ve been getting notifications all day from the iOS 15 weather app, which harken back to the Dark Sky days. Love it. The problem is that we’ve had a tornado watch and a tornado warning today, which I was not notified about at all. Anybody else?

It’ll say it’s gonna sprinkle. But we appear to be on our own if there’s severe weather coming.

That said, I really like the new weather app. But I may have deleted Accuweather too soon.

edit:

also, it DOES show the warnings inside the app. Just no push notification re: severe weather.
 
The notifications are for precipitation only, nothing else. I like the new weather app, but I hope Apple continues to improve and expand upon it. I would love to see it have a radar map and push notifications for warnings/watches from the NWS. Then I can finally get rid of my other weather apps.
 
Absolutely unbelievable that they added precip notifications but not severe weather. It’s way more critical to receive those than precipitation. My only thought is That in California they don’t get too many severe alerts so it’s an after thought for them…
 
I think the data is from weather channel and they're often wrong. They often predict temperature, rain, sun conditions and then they'd change it when the actual time arrives. So it's like they're looking out the window the same time I am looking out the window or going outside and updating the data, which makes the "forecast" not that useful since by then I can already tell the weather myself.
 
Yeah, it seems strange.

Dark Sky, on which this "new" app seems to be largely based, certainly wasn't dependent on the Weather Channel for their data and forecasting. Here's a list of their sources.

It seems strange to me that Apple would drop those trued and true sources in the interest of the Weather Channel - unless, of course, there's money involved.... Yep. I think I just answered my own question.

Accuweather reinstalled, for now.
 
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The apple weather app uses data from the weather channel in Australia, and it bears little relation to forecasts from the official Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Not worth using here.
 
TiggrToo said:
Apple purchased Dark Sky over a year ago.
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I thought Dark Sky is just an interface. It is not a meteorological organization. Apple's data comes from Weather Channel. It even says so on the app at this time. Is there more to it?
 
Surprising that Apple Weather doesn't do it since Dark Sky is integrated into it. During thunderstorm season I have to mute notifications from Dark Sky or it blows up my phone nonstop with advisories/warnings.
 
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antiprotest said:
I thought Dark Sky is just an interface. It is not a meteorological organization. Apple's data comes from Weather Channel. It even says so on the app at this time. Is there more to it?
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Dark sky are a data provider as well. Many apps including Carrot weather use Dark Sky data (well, until Apple closes the API at the end of 2022).

Dark Sky Blog

Blog of the best weather app and weather API in the world: Dark Sky
blog.darksky.net
 
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