‘We used to check every day, now it’s every minute’: how we got addicted to weather apps

As unprecedented weather leads to increasing climate anxiety, there’s a raft of different apps catering for every kind of forecastOne 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: “Everything felt so unpredictable, so out of control,” he says. “Just knowing that something was going to happen, tomorrow, that people said was gonna happen, was reassuring.”The