Seems like an strawman comparison to me? Dark Sky's hyper-local weather predictions weren't based on projecting hours into the future. They were based on very

Seems like an strawman comparison to me? Dark Sky's hyper-local weather predictions weren't based on projecting hours into the future. They were based on very small-scale extrapolation and interpolation. The meteorologists with their supercomputers aren't, to the best of my knowledge, even trying to do that. And Dark Sky wasn't trying to compete with their models, either. For that kind of long-term forecasting, it was simply passing along the forecasts that meteorological services used those models to produce.