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I believe that's because their original focus, and still the primary focus of the mobile app, is 'hyperlocal', near-term precipitation prediction. To do this t
by alexhawdon 10y ago
I believe that's because their original focus, and still the primary focus of the mobile app, is 'hyperlocal', near-term precipitation prediction.
To do this they require access to high-resolution (spatial and temporal) rain radar data, which isn't universally available. (In the USA this is provided by the NOAA, in the UK by the Met Office.)
- clashmoore 10y agoHyperlocal because it also uses the data from many small private weather stations around the US. So many times the data you're seeing is from a weather station in a neighbors yard around the block.