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by asdff 1326 days ago
This needs to be done for more cities in California, especially Los Angeles with its huge geographic area and all the diverse micro climates contained within. Sometimes the weather changes more than 15 degrees in half as many miles from the coast. It therefore doesn't make sense to e.g. check "weather in LA" when its going to be somewhat wrong most of the time depending on where in LA you happen to be, since the little widget that pops up on google search for "weather in LA" doesn't exactly tell you where in the 500sq miles of LA they are putting the temperature probe.
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Same thing in San Diego. I feel like the popular weather services can't make accurate predictions or even tell what is happening most of the time. My iPhone will tell me it's raining when it's sunny outside.
I feel like you could make a whole movie about the weather in LA. It would change your life. Twice.
Recognized the reference immediately. What a movie.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/LAStory

That's true, but an upstate New Yorker would wonder what the fine resolution forecast looks like for a place that really has weather.
Not weather, sun, sun, sun, sun, sun!