Autumn in New York, and the temperatures are starting to turn with the leaves. Take Monday, when the city that never sleeps basked in a very pleasant, breezy 65 degrees. Unless you took out your iPhone and asked Siri for the weather, that is -- then it became a barely bearable 91 degrees.
What gives? Click the Yahoo logo on that weather screen, and you'll find out the answer -- Siri is, in fact, giving you the temperature in New York, Texas.
Don't be ashamed if you've never heard of it. New York, Texas is a town so small it's unincorporated, with a population measured in the dozens.
How did that get confused with a city of 10 million people? We've reached out to Apple for comment, and will let you know what we hear back. But if we had to guess, we'd say it was a routing snafu -- one specific to Siri. (If you check Apple's weather app for New York temperatures, it gives correct results for the city.)
We've also found that if you ask Siri for the weather in Brooklyn, she returns results for Brooklyn, Ohio.
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The problem appears to predate iOS 6; Apple support forums show complaints about the New York weather result as early as Sept. 19. But given the widespread reports of trouble with Apple's Maps app in iOS 6, this location-based mixup couldn't have come at a worse time.