{"id":10763,"date":"2023-07-17T05:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T03:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/we-used-to-check-every-day-now-its-every-minute-how-we-got-addicted-to-weather-apps\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T05:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T03:37:38","slug":"we-used-to-check-every-day-now-its-every-minute-how-we-got-addicted-to-weather-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/we-used-to-check-every-day-now-its-every-minute-how-we-got-addicted-to-weather-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We used to check every day, now it\u2019s every minute\u2019: how we got addicted to weather apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As unprecedented weather leads to increasing climate anxiety, there\u2019s a raft of different apps catering for every kind of forecast<\/p>\n<p>One day in 2020, close to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Matt Rickett realized he was checking weather apps all the time. He immediately understood why: \u201cEverything felt so unpredictable, so out of control,\u201d he says. \u201cJust knowing that something was going to happen, tomorrow, that people said was gonna happen, was reassuring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next year Rickett, who lives in Austin, Texas, decided to stop using social media: \u201cI didn\u2019t like the control it had over my life,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I still had the energy, the need to look at my phone, for some reason. So I got even more into weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jul\/17\/weather-apps-addiction-climate-crisis-anxiety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9cd9aeb5414215b63ae40905e036c32591de4ea4\/248_1026_3925_2355\/master\/3925.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9d7d4d15f8028aa6ab258db8f8ae0fbd\" title=\"\u2018We used to check every day, now it\u2019s every minute\u2019: how we got addicted to weather apps\" \/>As unprecedented weather leads to increasing climate anxiety, there\u2019s a raft of different apps catering for every kind of forecast<br \/>\nOne day in 2020, close to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Matt Rickett realized he was checking weather apps all the time. He immediately understood why: \u201cEverything felt so unpredictable, so out of control,\u201d he says. \u201cJust knowing that something was going to happen, tomorrow, that people said was gonna happen, was reassuring.\u201d<br \/>\nThe next year Rickett, who lives in Austin, Texas, decided to stop using social media: \u201cI didn\u2019t like the control it had over my life,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I still had the energy, the need to look at my phone, for some reason. So I got even more into weather.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As unprecedented weather leads to increasing climate anxiety, there\u2019s a raft of different apps catering for every kind of forecast One day in 2020, close to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Matt Rickett realized he was checking weather apps all the time. He immediately understood why: \u201cEverything felt so unpredictable, so out of control,\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/we-used-to-check-every-day-now-its-every-minute-how-we-got-addicted-to-weather-apps\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We used to check every day, now it\u2019s every minute\u2019: how we got addicted to weather apps<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}