What Next: TBD Covers Mercurial Weather Apps

What Next: TBD Covers Mercurial Weather Apps

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In this episode of What Next: TBD Slate’s Lizzie O’Leary talks to Atlantic staff writer Charlie Warzel and UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain about weather apps, how unreliable they can be and why professional meteorologists consider these apps “crap apps”:

Weather apps can be frustrating. And with how much we rely on them to know if we should wear pants or shorts, they’ll still leave you in the rain. But as the climate gets wilder, the questions of how to tell people what they need to know—and quickly—can be an issue of life or death.

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