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My AccuWeather app has been doing "MinuteCasts" for quite a while and it's very accurate. I wonder if AccuWeather is using the ClimaCell tech.

The article got me to thinking how long will it be before the smart wipers on automobiles report to a central server that it is raining at the automobile's location. This would be a HUGE distributed network of rain sensors all over the world.

The app is available on the AppStore for iOS devices, and an Android version is to be launched in September. The app is free and does not contain advertisements, but ClimaCell does plan to charge for certain features, such as notifications for precipitation beyond a certain time.

1 posted on 08/12/2019 4:40:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I just tried it for Northern CA add it said it will rain in December.


2 posted on 08/12/2019 4:42:12 PM PDT by keat
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To: Gamecock; Larry Lucido

If only there were an app that could find the nearest toilet in a city. iToilet they could call it.


4 posted on 08/12/2019 4:49:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Does it warn you to close your mouth before you look at the sky so you won’t drown?


6 posted on 08/12/2019 4:57:55 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Don’t need it. Got crows and ravens all around me.


8 posted on 08/12/2019 5:01:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The Dark Sky app does this pretty well also.


9 posted on 08/12/2019 5:01:42 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Wunderground used to be GREAT.

Local- from Govt, local, and private weather stations.

Past, present, and predictions by the hour.

But it has gone belly up, it seems.

I could look up other locations for when I wanted to go there, or for friends or relatives’ weather.

Or if I was away from home, I could check home for what was going on.

With maps of weather: wind, rain, etc. and it’s movement.

Can’t do that anymore.

Am I just incompetent, or have other folks seen the same thing? And if so, what is a replacement?


10 posted on 08/12/2019 5:01:50 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (/S liberally (oops) applied to all posts.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I have a window that does that.


15 posted on 08/12/2019 5:19:07 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"before the smart wipers on our automobiles report to a central..."

*WARNING: Isolated rain on I-20 in Texas at mile marker 370!

*NEVER MIND: Jake from Mingus turned on his windshield washer controler!

17 posted on 08/12/2019 5:55:36 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

At first, I always wonder if it’s raining or I’m just getting pissed on again.


18 posted on 08/12/2019 6:07:56 PM PDT by fruser1
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*WARNING: Severe hail on I-20 in Texas off mile marker 370!

*NEVER MIND: That's Jake's wife beating on the hood of his truck with a 10# sledge after he came home from the Mule Lip Bar in Mingus.

19 posted on 08/12/2019 6:10:15 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Without a doubt ClimaCell has the best propaganda in the weather business. They are the Uber of the weather business. See them sell for hundreds of millions and then lose their ass after acquisition or IPO.

Disclaimer: I am in the weather business.


22 posted on 08/12/2019 6:23:04 PM PDT by Lakewood
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
*WARNING: Severe thunderstorm along I-20 in Texas off mile marker 370!

*NEVER MIND: Jake's wife shot him! Many times!

23 posted on 08/12/2019 6:27:53 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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