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So now that I’m paying more attention to clouds and cloud cover I’ve also been paying more attention to the cloud cover predictions in Dark Sky, which is the weather app that I’ve been using for years. I have discovered that as much as I like Dark Sky their cloud cover predictions are wrong way more often than they are right. They will also change vastly from day to day. For example I’ll go to bed on a Monday evening with Dark Sky showing that Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be clear and sunny and then wake up with it showing that Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be overcast and rainy.

I think some of this might just be the nature of the weather in Florida. I believe that because Florida is a thin little strip of land between two very large bodies of water the weather tends to be less predictable and changes quickly, but I’m also wondering if there are other apps that can do a better job with their predictions.

A few days ago I checked Dark Sky in the morning and it reported that it would be overcast all day, but the whole day was actually bright and sunny and one of my best production days in the past few weeks. I’ve had other days where I checked in the morning and Dark Sky said they would be clear, but then I barely saw the sun at all as the day went on.