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Wii Weather
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Nintendo enabled the "weather channel" on the Wii console today - here is its five-day prediction for Oxford in the UK:
Now I can tell you now that this is completely rubbish. Without even looking at another forecast I can tell you that it's going to be cold, cloudy, and foggy. Let's see what the Met Office says, shall we?
Told you so.
This is the one thing that bugs me the most about weather forecasting software - whether it's for your games console or for your mobile phone, they're only as good as the data source used, and invariably they go for the lowest bidder, which makes the whole thing completely pointless as the forecasts are simply wrong!
Now I can tell you now that this is completely rubbish. Without even looking at another forecast I can tell you that it's going to be cold, cloudy, and foggy. Let's see what the Met Office says, shall we?
Told you so.
This is the one thing that bugs me the most about weather forecasting software - whether it's for your games console or for your mobile phone, they're only as good as the data source used, and invariably they go for the lowest bidder, which makes the whole thing completely pointless as the forecasts are simply wrong!
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