My $80 cloud identification app was a total waste of cash

It kept freezing up and mislabeling basic cumulus clouds, so I just look things up online now. Has anyone found a decent app that actually works?

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finley_lee5mo ago

Eighty bucks to get told a fluffy white cloud is a rainstorm? Sounds like the app was the real cloud, fogging up your wallet. I just use my phone's camera and a free weather site, works better than any fancy download. What did they even spend the money on, paying someone to stare at the sky?

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claire_campbell5mo ago

Oh man, my buddy paid for one of those. It sent him a "severe alert" for a sunny day last week. He spent twenty minutes looking for a storm that wasn't there.

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stone.sarah5mo ago

Seriously, the money probably went into licensing the official government radar data. Those free sites get delayed feeds, but a paid app might buy direct access to the National Weather Service servers for real-time storm tracks. So you're paying for the faster data pipe, not the cloud picture.

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