The Weatherman Wants Your Smartphone Data: Creating Hyperlocal Weather Reports through Crowdsourcing

The weatherman has competition, and it’s from a phone app. WeatherSignal, an Android app developed by Dutch scientists, tells the weather by crowdsourcing temperature readings from the sensors that keep smartphone batteries from overheating. Since smartphones are everywhere, WeatherSignal might one day let meteorologists make hyperlocal weather reports without building weather stations on every roof.… Continue reading The Weatherman Wants Your Smartphone Data: Creating Hyperlocal Weather Reports through Crowdsourcing