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Siri doesn't get the weather right.

"What's the weather in Yosemite" and "Yosemite weather" can get you two drastically different results. As of right now (10/26/2020 10:35 AM) the two results I get are 43F and 32F.



Siri is always mistaken. Alexa is pretty good.


Alexa is super easy to make a skill for (IIRC it's one XML/JSON file hosted somewhere and registered with Amazon). So you could probably make your own with ~IFTTT to scrape the data. Alexa has "daily briefing" which will then go through a list of skills which can include your own [public] skills.

I made an "and finally ..." to add funny news to the end of the daily briefing and was super impressed how easy it was.




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