NWS probably has their hands tied. AccuWeather on the other hand is run by bootlickers. They’re deep enough in that sphere that Trump tried to put the CEO in as the head of NOAA during his first term. They’ve tried unsuccessfully lobbying to restrict NWS’s free forecasting (the one we all pay for) because it was interfering with their business model. I’ll leave the sexual harassment problems as an exercise for the reader. These are shitheads who were shitheads long before this. Don’t use that service.
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After discovering WeaWow, all other weather apps are inferior.
Accuweather probably did this gleefully.
But seriously, they cannot be their own map provider, right, That makes no sense. Probably what happened is the map provider finally did it.
Oops.
Just like that I stopped using their services.
The transition from Google Maps to the MapQuest app was essentially seamless. I'd do it again. 10/10.
Land of the weak, home of the cucked. And you thought only kids could get fucked by a pedo.
All my homies will hate AccuWeather form now on.
Yr.no is a nice weather service and it still shows lake ontario for me (though I'm not in the US and leave it on norsk instead of bothering to change to English)
The folks most concerned about such a change are those who live in the US since I'm assuming only we are exposed to this stupidity eg European providers aren't renaming shit based on a lunatics directives. For us yr.no is hard to adjust to since it supports the english language BUT only uses Celsius. I'm aware metric is superior but at least for me I have to mentally translate from A->B and celsius is used nowhere but in the sciences here. EG its not a great alternative
For me, in the EU, google maps shows "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" and "Lake Ontario (Lake America)".
google maps will sometimes show different borders depending on where you access it from as well.
Personally I try to use OSM where I can, but streetview can be really useful sometimes.
You wouldn't have to calculate if you just start getting used to it. Just remember what it's based on and stop clinging to the fahrenheit scale like it's a lifesaver and you're about to drown. Or keep a separate app running side by side set to C and get a feel for the translation if you want, but really you'd be better off switching to metric as your native scale entirely.
It may be mostly used in sciences, but given that weather is typically the only temperature based thing you probably need to look at regularly (outside of cooking/baking maybe- and you don't really need a feel for how 375 is different than 400, just set the oven correctly), it's not that difficult.
I did it just for kicks, and looked at both readings (F and C) for a while, and got the feel of it pretty quickly.
I want to do the same for length/distance next, which is more difficult.
But if you don't just want to, it's hard to find a good reason to, tbf.
AccuWeather misleads on global warming and heat waves, a throwback to its past climate denial
From 2019, so I guess so.
If I needed an excuse to drop AccuWeather, it was because of their literal shitty weather predictions.
America is full of cunts and cowards too afraid to stand up against a pedophile.
I have the power to vote, sign petitions, go to protests. I’m too poor to donate money. That is the extent of my power. Trillionaires run everything and have all the power, and guns. I stick to my liberal, socialist beliefs and do my best to help everyone I can. What is it you want me to do?
Spoken like someone who has absolutely no idea what it's like to try and organize people scattered across a fucking continent.
Specifically a continent with very poor access to public services that would make organization easier.
A continent where even speaking out can cost your your job and therefore Healthcare.
A continent where your neighbor might be someone who agrees with you, or they might blow your head off because they thought you might vote for a lefty.
A continent where the government has already threatened to murder any citizen they want just for fighting back against their authoritarian boot. A continent where your closest regional capital might be hours away.
My state is larger than most European countries. The logistics of organizing real action on this scale is insane. And a lot of very rich people have spent a lot of money for a very long time to make sure it's as hard to do anything about their tyrannical bullshit as possible.
The best most of us can do is vote, try and organize like-minded people locally, and survive the next week.
I too hate the comment you're replying to, but calling the USA - hell, even North America, though I don't see how that would apply here, I'm just trying to accomodate you - a fucking continent is just wrong. Coupled with the good ol' "my state is larger than most European countries" - yeah, no.
There are much better arguments to be made against that sort of comment.
weird ideas
you guys did vote and got what you wanted
you don't own Canada and Mexico yet you're just a country in north America
Turns out, some people can vote for candidate A and get candidate B either way.
Especially considering that US electoral system works in a way that even if the majority of the population chooses candidate A, candidate B can still win the election.
Iirc, this is exactly what happened to Trump, at least on his first term. Most votes were for Clinton, but Trump won anyway.
Your position could be understandable back in the day when it was mostly Russia and China who acted like that, and so it could be easy to feel superior by ignoring the objective factors getting into the equation. Nowadays, it spreads, and remaining ignorant about it will likely bite you in the not-so-distant future.
"you guys... got what you wanted"
crazy how an election system designed by people who never want to leave power could get me a leadership neither I nor anyone I care about voted for.
We hopefully will never "own" or occupy neighboring countries, but it doesn't change how massive our country is.
it's always a lemmy.ca user.
Sorry but I’m on their side. No private mapping supplier should be able to decide what things are called. Countries publicize official names of things and the private company should always use that. No matter how wrong it is
Congress gets to decide that, not the executive. Ignoring Trump tantrums is following the law.
The national whatever for place names calls it Lake America. That's the official source of data; neither Congress nor the president needs to be involved every single time a place is named (though this time the president decided to be because the president is a moron).
I don’t know what the law is but there must be an official database of names, and third parties need to follow that. They probably are
Unless there is evidence otherwise, these third parties are doing the right thing.
By all means, object to capricious or illegal name changes. I’m just saying the problem is all in the politics
Good thing i stopped using AccuWeather years ago or i would have been caught up in this bullshit... oh wait i almost forgot i don't care either way.
Anecdotal but my phone battery life has been greatly improved since I disabled Google Maps. I was hitting the 20% warning routinely before end of day previously, and now I typically have 30-40% when I plug it in at night.
On a related note, MapQuest offers Android Auto integration, and the turn-by-turn experience has been adequate in my admittedly limited testing.
YMMV.
my phone battery life has been greatly improved
It's a truism amongst gapps-free ROM and also all sorts of adblock users.
And yea, OSM has vastly improved in the past decade to the point that it's just as - if not more - reliable as Google's maps.
Disclaimer: people pointing out the convenience of Google products will be ridiculed. Even traffic jam prediction.
Cowards.
Accuweather is a conservative controlled scam-for-profit company and the NWS is under conservative control now as well. Conservatives absolutely despise science, so we should trust absolutely nothing produced by these entities anymore.
I've had AccuWeather forever, what's decent out there?
I've used and liked Breezy and Overmorrow.
Giving breezy a shot, thanks! (First impressions are that it looks great)
Breezy is fantastic and works with gadgetbridge if you have something like a bangle.js
Yeah, that's how I get weather data on my smartwatch. Kvaesitso can also connect to Breezy if you want weather data on your Android home screen.
Speaking of Gadgetbridge, that can also connect to OpenTracks, allowing it to use data (like heart rate) from your smartwatch to record it for hiking or other exercise tracking.
I vouch for Breezy. Been using it for years. It's very easy to use and clear and I think more accurate than a lot of my friends phones. Though that depends on your weather source.
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