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Where do you get your weather reports?

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Where do you get your weather reports?

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Casual Conversation@piefed.social · 2 days ago

Weather dotcom has premium gatekeeping and Accuweather just kinda sucks

EDIT: i just remembered not everyone is ND and doesn’t get really super into every topic enough to care about things like meteorology :[

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wonder why it’s not more popular

Because AccuWeather’s lobbying efforts have resulted in NOAA being prohibited from competing with “value-added” private-sector weather services.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/08/12/why-doesnt-the-national-weather-service-have-a-weather-app/

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