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Comment by tiffanyh

Is DarkSky not an actual weather app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35268026

> Meteorologists seemed to feel that Dark Sky was a graphics processing tool, not a weather app.

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  “Any weather forecast beyond a couple of hours ... depend on supercomputer models that work according to the laws of physics ... But when we talk about Dark Sky, all it was doing was taking the visual input of the radar and extrapolating what was going to happen over the next couple of hours.”
https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/dark-sky-weather-app-ap...
parent tiffanyh 2 years ago

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