Of course local weather is whacked. Always has been; always will be. For example, I have a mailing address of Faith, SD, so everyone assumes they can look up the weather in Faith and that is what I have. Sorry, not true. First, Faith is almost 30 miles east of my location and a few hundred feet lower in elevation. Second, Faith is a village of less than 400 people. There are no weather persons there. There is a remote sensor at a dirt airstrip east of town for temp, humidity, and wind speed and direction, but no human observers or forecasters. It knows when it is raining, but cannot tell you how heavy the rain/snow//hail is or what percentage of the sky has cloud cover or what kind of clouds (stratus? cumulus? cumulonimbus mammatus?). The nearest RADAR/doppler is 100 miles SW of Faith (Rapid City airport) and, due to Earth's curvature and numerous hills between here and there, is never accurate that far away. The sensor data gets stuck into the computer as if it was a real observation. It is far from it. OK, reality check. We have a digital thermometer here that records highs and lows until you reset and has an accuracy of 0.1 ºF. Our low temp this morning was -7 ºF and today's high was +5 ºF (for about 5 minutes anyway, then it took a nose dive). The current temperature here is +2 ºF and still falling, with a 30 mph wind, which makes for a chill factor of -23 ºF. If you look up Faith right at the moment, the remote claims it is +5 ºF with a 11 mph wind, so the chill is only -10 ºF. No way is their remote sensor an accurate representation of the weather at my house.
P.S. I spent 6+ years in the USAF as a weather observer and weather forecaster. The computers we used were in our heads and the trigonometry was a pencil on paper. There were no desktop computers and forecast models or remote sensing equipment. We relied on human beings with knowledge and logic. Today's forecasts do not involve logic and any humans who might be involved simply do not give a damn about the accuracy of their computer model. If your weather is wrong, they don't give a rat's ass because it does not in any way affect their paychecks.