Google Now says that ívila is the hottest city in Spain in October
The search assistants from different tech companies are useful, accurate, and sometimes even fun tools. Whether it's to search for any information on the Internet, ask us to tell a joke or even to commanding them to do simple tasks for us, tools like Google Now, Siri (Apple), and Cortana (Microsoft) are making it big on mobile devices.Of course, they are not always as reliable as one would like.
The curious thing is that Google Now, despite presenting itself as the most reliable tool, specifically precise and with more abundant information, it also has failures Thus, whoever writes these lines, has been able to demonstrate that the temperature cards can be misleading, even if only occasionally. It happened in the town of ívila, in Castilla y León, where the thermometer from Google has reached no less than 45 degrees at 4:00 p.m. A figure that is not only irreal, but would mean that ívila is the hottest city in Spain in the month of October Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is a city located in the center of the peninsula, at the foot of the Sierra de Gredos, and with a certain fame , more or less deserved, for being a quite cold localityIn fact, street thermometers and data from the State Meteorological Agency have not exceeded 23 degrees Celsius above the 17 hours A temperature that, on the other hand, is more than pleasant and mild for this time of year.
However, the Google weather card hasn't changed its mind for the rest of the afternoon, lowering its values and dropping from those unreal 43 degrees to 28 degrees after six in the evening, even when the sun was no longer present. A trend that must be attributed to some kind of timely failure And it is that the temperature of other places does remain consistent in this assistant with respect to the data ofAEMET and at latitude of the place For example, Seville also coincided in those 28 degrees at six in the afternoon with ívila , despite the 500 km distance to the south that separates them
The most curious thing is that the detailed information of the weather card of ívila yes it offered real data of this same day October 30, indicating a maximum temperature of 21 degrees However, taking into account the value of the temperature throughout the hours of the day , the digital mercury continued marking data that even rivaled those of the summer season.
Therefore, and although the general trend is for reliability and quite a lot of precision, it never hurts to use the common sense when interpreting the data that these assistants provide us. And it is that, despite being machines, there can also be failures After contacting GoogleWe have not been able to find the origin of this failure, making it impossible to know what is the official source of weather information for GoogleA small mistake that borders on curiosity and that reminds us of the importance of knowing how to interpret technology beyond accepting it as perfect or absolute.
