💬 I look out the window before the weather app and I keep getting wet

Every morning before work I walk to the window and look at the sky. Then I check the app. Usually in that order. Sometimes I skip the app if the sky looks clear enough to me. I know it's backwards. The app has satellites and I have a window with a dirty grill. But a sky I can see with my own eyes feels more real to me than a percentage on a phone. Tuesday it was bright blue at 8:30. No clouds anywhere. I left the umbrella by the door. The app said 80 percent rain by noon. I'd seen it and ignored it. I'd like to say I had a reason. I just didn't believe a phone over a sky. By 12:40 I was on my scooter near Gachibowli with water running down my neck. The rain came sideways. I pulled under a flyover with 15 other riders, all of us dripping. A man next to me, in a nice shirt, said, did you check the app? I said no. He said, me neither. We looked at the rain for 25 minutes and didn't talk anymore. It felt like a small club. No names, no meetings. Just 2 grown men who trust windows over satellites. My colleague saw me come in soaked and asked if I owned an umbrella. I said yes. She asked why it wasn't with me. I said it was at home, next to the app. She said, you should check the app. I said I did check it. I just didn't listen. Today the sky was grey and the app said 20 percent. I took the umbrella anyway. Dry all day.

A sky I can see with my own eyes feels more real than a percentage, I am with you on that.

I trust the balcony over any app too, mostly because the app for my area always seems to be predicting rain for a city forty minutes away instead of mine.