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Weather answers come from Apple’s WeatherKit, the same source the Weather app uses. Like Maps, both tools take place names rather than your location.
Can
  • Read current conditions for a named place: temperature, feels-like, humidity and wind
  • Read a daily forecast for a named place: highs, lows and the chance of rain
Cannot
  • Use your location. The weather actions take place names only
  • Call a third-party weather service. Answers come from Apple, or not at all

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The one request that leaves your Mac

Weather is the only app whose tools cause a request to the internet carrying anything about your question. When you ask, WeatherKit sends Apple the coordinates of the place you named and enough about the app itself for Apple to agree to answer. The coordinates are “Clapham, London”, not where your Mac is. Apple’s own words: “Location is used only to provide weather forecasts and is not associated with any personally identifying information and is never shared or sold.” It is on what leaves your Mac with everything else, and the toggle is off until you switch it on. Off means no request.

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Worth knowing

WeatherKit checks the app’s signature against a paid Apple developer team. A build Apple will not answer gets no weather at all, and says so. There is deliberately no third-party fallback, because a fallback would send your questions somewhere this page does not name.
Fixed units, so an assistant never has to guess. It can convert for you in its answer.
Like Maps, WeatherKit does not prompt. The toggle is the gate.