A forum topic for reporting bugs and other issues with CastleOS
Weather: Default weather accuracy sucks
Phil Hawthorne Posts: 400
2/1/2016
|
This could be because I'm in Australia, and had to enter my ZIP code as my city name "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia".
I've always found the weather forcast for CastleOS untrustworthy. Now that I can ask the computer "current weather", which fires of my Jarvis style script (still can't get it to execute as an event) I can see the difference in reporting.
Lets start with a bechmark. Google is forcasting the temperature today as 31c degrees (88F). Yahoo via my Kinect script is 30c (86F) with a low of 18c (64F) CastleOS is reporting the forcast for today as 23c (73F) and a low of 14c (57F)
There's a big difference here, which means I can't trust the weather CastleOS is telling me by default. Which service provider does CastleOS get its weather from?
|
|
0
link
|
Tommy Long Posts: 218
2/1/2016
|
|
|
0
link
|
Phil Hawthorne Posts: 400
2/1/2016
|
Thanks Tommy
Replacing urzipcode with Melbourne%20Australia gets the correct city and country. Todays forcast is set to 27c / 82F, slightly better. Google is still reporting 31c / 88F.
So it seems CastleOS gets its weather from Bing. I'm not surprised how horrible Bing would be for weather
|
|
0
link
|
Chris Cicchitelli Administrator Posts: 3390
2/2/2016
|
Yup, we use MSN/Bing for weather, but they themselves just get it from Foreca. All forecasts are going to be a little different. I pulled up the data as soon as you posted yesterday, and as you can see in the attached pic, while Bing data may have been very different from Yahoo, it was very similar to The Weather Channel. So perhaps it was Yahoo that had bad data? P.S. Melbourne, Australia and Melbourne, Victoria, Australia pulls up the same data feed.
|
|
0
link
|
Phil Hawthorne Posts: 400
2/2/2016
|
Chris Cicchitelli wrote: while Bing data may have been very different from Yahoo, it was very similar to The Weather Channel. So perhaps it was Yahoo that had bad data? haha I don't know the rankings of weather sources in the state. I guess The weather channel would be up there, but in this case, Yahoo had the correct data. I'll keep an eye on it. Will be interesting to see if the inconsistencies are consistent
|
|
0
link
|