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Is the weather system broken in your area?

Are others having ridiculously wrong weather or stuck with the same weather day in and day out? Here in Bangkok it has been blistering sun and very hot, but every day the weather is "cloudy" all day and night. Cloudy weather sucks for Adventure Week (was great for the Fighter Event) but two things make this really dumb. 1) we get scheduled (not random) outbreaks of "Rainy" when it isn't raining and these start precisely at the top of the hour (ie for example at 2PM and end exactly one hour later at 3PM)
2) if I look at Google weather, they get the forecast / weather correct (GW says the weather has been sunny or partly cloudy 50% of the time) BUT of course PMGO does not use the Google weather setting ... they must be using a different website or simply just not updating the weather.

Does not seem like rocket science to me!!!!!!!!

Asked by kenbkk6 years 7 months ago
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by Laku 6 years 7 months ago

Yeah, we get that a lot as well in my area. I believe most common weather in game (regardless of weather outside) is Cloudy, it was Cloudy on most days during winter and it's Cloudy even as I'm writing this message. But that has to do how the weather system in Pokemon GO works, this is a direct quote from here:
https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/weather-boosts

"Pokemon GO appears to use forecasts by AccuWeather, which reports weather data obtained from various services, such as the National Weather Service in the United States. Pokemon GO assigns weather to geographic areas (“cells”) based on the hourly weather forecast provided by AccuWeather (emphasis on forecast: GO does not use the current weather). The active weather in-game is updated every hour, on the hour.

Due to the size of individual map cells and the innate inaccuracy of weather forecasts, don’t be surprised if the game’s active weather does not reflect real-world weather!"

These sentences explain why you are experiencing those kind of "issues" with weather in your area. For example that scheduled rain lasts for an hour just because the weather in game is updated once every hour.

The weather system could use improving that's for sure, but I'm still quite satisfied to it as for now. There are better things they should fix/improve first, right :)

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Thanks for the detailed explanation. Yeah, you are right they need to fix other issues first. When they first introduced "weather boost" I knew it would be a real game changer as one can now assemble a high power raid team without spending any dust. Wish we had a chance to catch the weather boosted Mons in weather that is "foreign" to our locale (ie no hope ever of seeing Fog or Snow in SE Asia).

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Fog is among one of the rarest weathers. I've seen it only a small handful of times, like single digits amount. Snow was nice though, allowed me to get an army of level 30+ Walreins for Rayquaza with very little dust investment. Also got my perfect Beldum in the snow.

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by Pingo 6 years 7 months ago

Were I live it was sunny or at least partly clowdy all week. It never rained. Niantic saw it different though. They did let it rain a lot. Sometimes cloudy and when it was clearly sunny they gave us partly clouwdy...

In short we got robbed of weather boosted alolan eggys. At least with rain the fossils were boosted as well.

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I've seen a weird weather: Symbol for partly cloudy, weather effects for rain (including for capture screen) but the boost was correct for partly cloudy. It would be funny if it suddenly snowed in-game mid July though (in countries where it's summer).

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Seen the same weird weather too. The boost follows the symbol.

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by hkn 6 years 7 months ago

In Singapore, the weather can change from scorching sun to thunderstorm and back in 15 minutes.

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I've found that it seems to get affected by the forecast rather than the weather itself. In a way it's been sort of helpful in real life. If it's clear out and the game shows rain, I take my umbrella with me to work since there's a good chance it will rain later.

Maybe there are relatively few points where the weather is determined in the game. The nearest one to you might be a few miles away or dozens. If it's farther away, that may be why it sometimes reflects the forecast (it might be raining at the point that determines your weather but that storm is still an hour away from where you are).

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