Baltimore FOX45 meteorologist Gerard Jebaily is calling out Apple and its weather app after it repeatedly forecast more than 20 inches of snow in the days leading up to this weekend’s winter storm, then appeared to significantly overstate snowfall totals after the storm ended.
In a post on social media, Jebaily wrote, “WOW! This is embarrassing. Did you see this on your phone this week? The Apple weather app was predicting over 20” of snow just one day before our storm! Not only was it INCREDIBLY wrong, but it is trying to say IT HAPPENED!?”
In a subsequent post, Jebaily escalated his criticism, writing, “Apple you caused a weather panic in our city and now everybody is quite mad about it. Residents for the bad info, Meteorologists for being falsely associated with it, and worse, it is not even showing what actually happened. This needs fixing NOW!”…