The weather app doesn't give much money. The main business sells weather and climate data B2B: agro, insurance, logistics, retail, supply chains, advertisement, medical, etc.
Companies whose primary business is weather apps are small, and such areas are highly competitive.
"Speaking to the The Palm Beach Post at the time, Barry Myers said he supported the weather service returning to its “core mission … which is protecting other people’s lives and property” instead of spending “hundreds of millions of dollars a year, every day, producing forecasts of ‘warm and sunny.’”"
Also from the same article:
"He told ABC News in May 2005: “We work hard every day competing with other companies and we also have to compete with the government.”"
