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I have Windows 8.1 and noticed that almost always (as in "as long I remember having Windows 8.1") the weather tile/app is showing strange values for temperature. It is set to show weather for my town.
For example this happened just now:
- I open the start screen and the tile show 26℃
- after a second it changes to 24℃
- after another second I open the app by clicking the tile and it takes about a second to load and then it shows 23℃
- I close it and get back to the start screen where the tile still shows 24℃ (even several minutes later)
After posting the question I also noticed this:
- app shows one value
- I click on the value (it changes from Celsius to Fahrenheit)
- I click again (goes back to Celsius)
- it shows a different temperature than on start
Is the app using different code (logic) or data than the tile?
This basically makes it useless, because I never know if the value I see is real or totally off.
By the way: I saw many other weather apps/widgets/gadgets/weblets (on different platforms) behave similarly. As if programming "load data from server, then display it" is some hard programming problem.
David Balažic
Posted 2017-06-24T23:39:19.523
Reputation: 1 242
"Is the app using different code or data than the tile?" - Yes, it absolutely is using different code to display the temperature on the tile then in the application. It would be using the same source for the data though. – Ramhound – 2017-06-25T00:46:42.983
When it comes to accurate weather info, try to take as much control to your hands as possible - external weather info gathering program that connects to your local weather station (if you can trust it...). – African Networks – 2017-06-25T00:54:42.197