Breton drizzle is sometimes the surprise guest. Damn fog, difficult to detect, even with the most efficient radars! And yet it is not for lack of information. Every day, and often several times a day, Grégory Mignard, a photographer and cameraman based in Finistère, checks the weather forecasts on at least three apps. “I cross-reference information to make my little climate meal and organize my day.”
Passionate about sailing and surfing, the Brestois cannot “ [se] be satisfied with the temperature and cloudiness » or be lucky enough to have “the right tide, the right size and direction of the waves”. But, he admits, consulting his favourite apps, Meteoblue, Windy, Windguru, popular among water sports enthusiasts, also helps him on a daily basis. “Whether I’m biking, gardening, or just avoiding a storm every ten minutes, I like to have a constantly updated view of the time of day.” Vectors of “passion rather than obsession”Apps have allowed him to discover knowledge that he enjoys sharing with friends and sharing with his loved ones. “a role as a meteorological reference”precise.
Knowing the level of humidity, the strength of the wind, the duration of sunshine, the probability of rain in an hour, nothing could be simpler. And more shared. Predicting the weather has become a modern obsession. Every evening, more than ten million viewers continue to watch maps, pictograms and temperature forecasts, before or after the 8pm news on TF1 and France 2. Every day, on France 3, “Météo à la carte” details the variations in the sky and their impact on our lives. Local sites are multiplying and smartphone applications (free or paid) number in the thousands. In short, we have become cumulus accumulators.
An oracle in your pocket
Cloud tracking motivates both “weather-sensitive” professionals (farmers, event organisers, tourism professionals) and the average citizen: from athletes looking to optimise their performance in the best conditions to poorly equipped “cyclists” worried about the imminent arrival of the storm, to the “weather-sensitive” brooding over a rotten spring, everyone’s gaze turns upwards. “Dependence on the changing nature of the sky remains a backdrop to our ordinary activities.recalls Martine Tabeaud, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne. But it is the ways of doing things and experiencing the climate that have changed. »
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