Are the weather apps getting worse?
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re turning our attention to our weather apps. Are they getting worse? Are Trump’s DOGE cuts to blame? Why don’t we use feels like as the default temp? And what does the percentage of precipitation (PoP) actually mean?
Then, we answer a listener's question on how Spotify’s shuffle feature actually works.
Check out Heather McCalden’s “The Observable Universe.”
The last track in this week’s episode is from Certain Self’s “Girl in the Walls” from his new EP You Look Tired.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. |
| 0:00.9 | I'm Noah. |
| 0:01.7 | This is Devin, and this is no such thing, |
| 0:03.8 | the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:08.1 | On today's episode, are the weather apps actually getting worse? |
| 0:12.7 | And how random is Spotify's shuffle feature really? |
| 0:19.3 | There's no such thing. No such thing. So as the weather seems to be getting more and more unpredictable, with flash flooding, overtaking |
| 0:45.2 | our subways in New York City, you can see water spouting out of the walls, people walking across |
| 0:51.1 | flooded platforms in that rather dirty water. |
| 0:54.0 | To the tragic, deadly floods in central Texas. |
| 0:57.2 | He confirmed that at least 135 people have been killed. |
| 1:01.5 | This is in addition to the more than 100 people who remain missing across several counties. |
| 1:07.2 | This week, we are turning our attention to our weather apps. |
| 1:11.7 | Anecdotally, many people in our lives have been complaining that the weather apps are just not accurate anymore. |
| 1:18.6 | So we're going to get to the bottom of that and answer all your other questions about weather apps, including this one from my friend Alec. |
| 1:28.7 | Okay, so I want to know why we as society can't come together and use feels-like temperatures |
| 1:33.7 | instead of actual temperatures as the default. Because right now, when they tell me it's going to be |
| 1:38.9 | 65 degrees, I then have to go and do other homework on like how windy is it going to be that day and is it going to be really humid. |
| 1:47.2 | And it seems like they have come up with one number that can give me the answer that I'm really looking for here, which is do I need a jacket that day? |
| 1:55.7 | That's a great question. |
| 1:56.7 | And it reminds me of when you guys used to make fun of me for saying that it feels quote unquote good outside. |
| 2:03.6 | Like it feels good. |
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