The federal government has been tracking the weather for more than 150 years. Yet over the last few decades, the rise of the Internet and big tech have made weather forecasting a more crowded space. Today, our colleagues at NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator report on the value of an accurate forecast and the debate over who should control weather data. Follow The Indicator on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey, short wavers, Regina Barber here with an extra bonus episode for you this weekend. We wanted to give you a chance to hear something from our friends over at The Indicator, which is NPR's daily economics podcast. And this particular episode is about something science-y we think you'd be into. So thanks for checking it out.
And here are your Indicator hosts, Wei-Lin Wong and Adrienne Ma.
Adrienne Ma, what is an app on your phone that you use every single day?
Like besides the text messaging app?
Yeah, or like Candy Crush or whatever.
I would have to say the weather app. It's like the first thing that I open in the morning.
Me too. Now, here's another question. Do you ever think about where the weather forecast on your phone comes from?
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