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p.1 #1 · What online weather service do you use

I will often check the weather on accuweather to get some idea if there will be a chance of a decent sunrise/sunset. I was just wondering other people are using.
Jim

Aug 11, 2008 at 09:53 PM

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p.1 #2 · What online weather service do you use

Wunderground.com rings my bell.

Aug 11, 2008 at 10:41 PM

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p.1 #3 · What online weather service do you use

The weather channel - I like their hourly forecast for the rolling next 12 hours.

Aug 11, 2008 at 11:07 PM

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p.1 #4 · What online weather service do you use

Wunderground.com is my choice too.

Aug 11, 2008 at 11:22 PM

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p.1 #5 · What online weather service do you use

Thanks for the tip on wunderground.com. I just checked it out. I like the % cloud cover.
Jim

Aug 12, 2008 at 04:48 PM

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p.1 #6 · What online weather service do you use

Wunderground is the best. My business requires that I track storms, and all the data they give is amazing.

Aug 13, 2008 at 02:37 AM

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p.1 #7 · What online weather service do you use

I usually check the weather at a nearby airport. The conditions are reported every hour and include cloud coverage and heights, and visibility.

Aug 13, 2008 at 03:12 AM

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p.1 #8 · What online weather service do you use

www.noaa.gov

Aug 13, 2008 at 03:22 PM

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p.1 #9 · What online weather service do you use

national weather service regional offices online. zone forecasts for quick; forecast discussions for detail and precision. takes a while to get to know the meteorological lingo and science (like a lifetime!) but i've been doing it for thirty years. (used to call or visit the offices before the web). everyone else bases their data pretty much on what the NWS provides so why not go to the source?

Aug 13, 2008 at 03:33 PM

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p.1 #10 · What online weather service do you use

On a similar topic. How reliable is the forecast in mainland US?

Here in the southwest of England the forecast is very regularly innacurate

Aug 13, 2008 at 04:06 PM

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p.1 #11 · What online weather service do you use

Tim Gray wrote:
The weather channel - I like their hourly forecast for the rolling next 12 hours.

Same here, although they are only accurate for about the next 30 minutes.

Aug 13, 2008 at 04:09 PM

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p.1 #12 · What online weather service do you use

mrladewig wrote:
www.noaa.gov
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Aug 13, 2008 at 04:29 PM

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p.1 #13 · What online weather service do you use

I use intellicast.com They have excellent radars, lightning strikes, cloud coverage etc, plus I have found it to be one of the more accurate ones.
bob

Aug 14, 2008 at 05:08 PM

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p.1 #14 · What online weather service do you use

intellicast for radars (mostly because they had the most accessible several years ago when i made it a favorite)

accuweather for everything else

(i once got in a bet with a guy with weather.com vs. accuweather. i was a weather.com fan, and the loser had to switch. well, after two weeks of frequent checking and subsequent observations... the data wasn't even close. accuweather was far more... well... accurate)

looks like wunderground is getting some nods though... maybe it's time to run another test...

Aug 14, 2008 at 05:21 PM


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