Neal Freiman

So for this past blizzard, they might say Providence is expected to get two feet of snow.

But you know what?

There are some models out there forecasting over three feet and they would have been right.

There are some other unique features as well.

Acme is testing alerts that tell you if a rainbow is coming or when you might be able to see a beautiful sunset.

Releasing a weather app, especially one that costs 25 bucks a year, it's kind of like opening a dispensary in the Berkshires.

There's not exactly a shortage of them,

But if anyone can stick out of the crowd, it's the weather app Dream Team who started Dark Sky, a cult favorite vaunted for its accuracy that was acquired by Apple in March 2020.

Co-founder Adam Grossman told TechCrunch that he felt constrained at such a huge company and wasn't able to try as many weird things as he wanted to.

And so Acme Weather was born.

Toby, can these guys make weather app lightning strike twice?

Yeah, I think these weather companies, weather apps, weather forecasters kind of dumbed the dumb forecasting down for us over the past couple of decades.

They didn't think we could handle multiple predictions, but it seems like the trend line is moving toward the direction of giving people as much data as possible and saying, here's what we know.

Here's the range of uncertainties.

And you come up with your own decision on what is going to happen with the weather, because we don't really know with 100 percent certainty.

The New York Times actually interviewed their own weather team and the weather people at the New York Times said, yeah, we are emphasizing what we don't know.

That is that is our defining feature of our approach to weather.

So it's very interesting to see weather forecasting go from here is from kind of treating all of us like kids that we can't handle it to giving us more of more data and letting us make our own decisions.

You know what's so funny?

Neil, I know you don't take investing seriously.