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Why would you expect Siri to know if it is raining at your specific location? Surely there exists an edge where on one side it is raining and on the other it is not raining.

So unless you are sitting next to the the weather station that Siri is getting data from, I would not expect it to know 100% of the time.

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> Why would you expect Siri to know if it is raining at your specific location?

I don't, but as a result, I expect it not to guess.

But you’re asking it to guess, and it’s usually right. Surely that’s better than having it refuse to offer a suggestion.

I live in the Netherlands. The local weather apps tell me when it's going to rain with nearly minute precision, along with cloud maps with scrollable time, graphs of how heavy the rain will be at what time, etc. It's pure nonsense to claim this is a technical limitation when other apps do it with ease. No one is expecting it to be right 100% of the time, but Apple Weather is wrong about rain most of the time, even on a crude scale of say, a city.

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