Why can’t you trust your weather app in a snowstorm? Join hosts Mike Elgan and Emily Forlini as they navigate the chaos of the weekend storm and debate the reliability of modern weather apps versus traditional TV meteorologists, and now TikTok weather experts. (RIP Farmer’s Almanac.) Plus, your favorite hosts ask the questions nobody has the answer to: What’s the best way to do social media in 2026?

Links

https://apnews.com/article/winter-storm-apps-forecast-accuracy-snow-weather-9768afec5fc53b4faba19f3cfd06a86c

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Chapters

00:00 Weather Wonders: A Tale of Two Climates

02:14 The Evolution of Weather Forecasting

05:12 The Role of Meteorologists in Modern Society

08:04 The Impact of Weather on Agriculture

11:10 The Future of Weather Information

13:48 The Intersection of Technology and Tradition

16:48 Cultural Perspectives on Weather Communication

19:32 The Legacy of the Farmer’s Almanac

28:10 The Lively Chaos of Latin American Streets

31:24 Navigating Information in a Digital Age

38:47 The TikTok Experiment: Finding Engagement

53:06 Connecting Through Content Creation

Keywords

Superintelligent podcast, Mike Elgan, Emily Forlini, weather apps, meteorology, TikTok meteorologists, severe weather tracking, Dark Sky app, AI hallucinations, chatbot accuracy, Farmer’s Almanac, subscription economy, Netflix business model, emergency alert systems, megaphone trucks, content creation strategy, video marketing, DJI drones, Kagi Search, social media engagement, Fediverse, Mastodon, viral video strategies, authentic storytelling

Disclosures

We used Gemini Pro 3 via Kagi (my son and our producer, Kevin, works at Kagi) to 1) generate keywords from the transcript (most of which we used); 2) suggest topics to link to (some of which we used); and 3) write a first draft of the show summary paragraph (which we heavily edited). We recorded and edited the episode using Riverside and used Riverside’s “Magic Audio” (which boosts and normalizes the audio).

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