When I got Charlie Warzel on the line, I had a simple question for him.

What weather apps do you have on your phone?

Charlie's answer was a little less simple.

So I used to be a dark sky loyalist before the purge, before they kind of shuttered and

folded it into Apple weather.

I've since started using Apple weather, which I don't like.

And recently through recommendations, I've been like toying around with a couple of different

weather apps.

One is called carrot and one is called windy dot app, not to be confused with windy, which

is another app.

There are over 10,000 weather apps in the Android and iOS app stores making all this very

confusing.

So that's a total of four, at least four that he currently uses.

I mean, I have like a whole graveyard of old weather apps that I have discarded over the

years.

Discarded because weather apps kind of suck.

Charlie writes for the Atlantic and recently wrote a story about these apps and where they

fit in our lives.

Most of us don't have a favorite TV meteorologist anymore.

We roll out of bed and look at our phones, depending on that app for guidance.

If a weather app predicts the weather for you and gets it wrong and leaves you stranded

somewhere or in a really bad situation, you know, that can feel a little bit like betrayal,

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