Npr.
Adrienne Ma, what is an app on your phone that you use every single day?
Like besides the text messaging app?
Yeah.
Or like Candy Crush or whatever.
I would have to say the weather app is like the first thing that I open in the morning.
Me too.
Now here's another question.
Do you ever think about where the weather forecast on your phone comes from?
You know, until very, very recently, I had not thought about this at all.
I just assumed like somebody was beaming it to me from a satellite somewhere.
Yeah, I never really thought about this either until I started using a specific weather app on my phone.
The app lets me toggle between almost a dozen forecasting sources and confession.
Sometime if I'm hoping for a particular forecast, I'll just shop around in the app until I get the forecast that I want.
You're like, oh, it's going to rain today.
Or is it?
Or is it?
I guess this just goes to show how much access we have to weather information these days.
Weather forecasting has gotten a lot more accurate in the last few decades.
It's a multibillion dollar industry.