ACCUWEATHER APPS
AccuWeather is an American media company that provides for-profit weather forecasting services worldwide. AccuWeather markets weather products and services, with 175,000 clients worldwide in media, business and government. It also runs the free, advertising-supported website AccuWeather.com, an online weather provider. The company claims that the AccuWeather brand and weather are presented to over 110 million people every day. AccuWeather employs 404 persons, of whom 113 are meteorologists.
AccuWeather forecasts and services are based on weather information derived from numerous sources, including weather observations and data gathered by the National Weather Service and meteorological organizations outside the United States, and from information provided by non-meteorological organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the armed forces.
AccuWeather operates a 24-hour commercially sponsored weather channel known as The Local AccuWeather Channel, which is similar to the now defunct NBC Weather Plus. The Local AccuWeather Channel launched in 2006 and is currently on the air in 56 markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Houston.
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ACCUWEATHER APPS FOR DEVICES
AccuWeather has improved its media distributions via the smart phone apps such as apps for Android and Apple products in the form of widgets, live update etc. it has mesmerized its users with its high level of accuracy including the Real Feel function along with detailed weather descriptions moreover a whole new graphical interface. The best widget it supports is of the Samsung Galaxy series such as the new smart phones which includes time to time update with a whole new scenic view which shows the type of climate change or weather change as we step out of home.
I mostly liked the app that was available for Windows 8 PCs which was not too large in size and was easily available on the Windows store, the app contained high level of details including the remarks about the weather such as if its night and wind speed is normal say 9 KPH so the remarks would be that it is a great time for outdoor fitness which makes the app interesting to use and scrubbing through various cities or countries to view the weather and to stay updated.
CRITICIMS AND PRACTICE
Between April 2012 and August 2013, AccuWeather began increasing the range of their forecast from 15 days, to 25 days, then finally to 45 days. Such a time frame is far beyond the recognized limit of current forecasting technology, which limits such accuracy to about ten days. An informal assessment conducted by Jason Samenow at The Washington Post determined that AccuWeather forecasts at the 25-day range were often wrong by as many as ten degrees, no better than random chance, and that the forecasts missed half of the fourteen days of rain that had occurred the month of the assessment. For AccuWeather part, the company does not claim absolute precision in such extremely long forecasts and advises users to only use the forecast to observe general trends in the forecast period. A later assessment from the Post determined that the 45 day forecasts were not even able to predict trends accurately and that, although the forecasts did not decrease in accuracy with time, the forecasts were so far off even in the short range to be useless.
