Apple Weather app temps way wrong

In Melbourne the apple weather app is often quite a few degrees off. The Yahoo! link takes me to weather.com which shows quite a discrepancy with Yahoo!'s own weather reading. Yahoo! is in line with the local Bureau of Meteorology. Today the temp is out by 5*C or 9*F.
Have contacted weather.com, Yahoo! Weather, but don't expect any resolution. Tricky when there are so many parties involved. Might have to mail sjobs. Though think pointless.
See image of discrepancy. Very frustrating.... Obviously a little too much time on my hands...

The reason for the problematic weather prediction in Apple is simple and disturbing at the same time.
1. Traditionally Apple gets its weather data from Yahoo! they do so regardless to the fact that Yahoo is not a weather company, this arrangement has historical reasons (and it has nothing to do with the accuracy or quality of service you as a user are getting from Apple weather).
2. Yahoo! (not a weather company) gets its weather data from the Weather Channel.
3. Weather Channel CEO (David Kenny) also serves as Yahoo board member. So good luck changing the Weather Channel Yahoo agreement.
4. The iPhone build in weather app is one of the world most popular apps, The Weather Channel has no incentive to make the Apple weather app as accurate as The Weather Channel own app.
The result is – easy to use inaccurate weather app

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