What online weather service do you use
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jph1
Registered: Jun 02, 2003
Total Posts: 848
Country: United States

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



Henry W
Registered: Oct 23, 2003
Total Posts: 6618
Country: United States

Wunderground.com rings my bell.



Tim Gray
Registered: Mar 01, 2002
Total Posts: 833
Country: Canada

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



Lee Green
Registered: Aug 10, 2007
Total Posts: 92
Country: United States

Wunderground.com is my choice too.



jph1
Registered: Jun 02, 2003
Total Posts: 848
Country: United States

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



roberto1979
Registered: Dec 30, 2006
Total Posts: 1297
Country: United States

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



jerrykur
Registered: Feb 15, 2005
Total Posts: 3658
Country: United States

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



mrladewig
Registered: Dec 20, 2005
Total Posts: 2588
Country: United States

www.noaa.gov



D. von Briesen
Registered: Jan 17, 2007
Total Posts: 940
Country: United States

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?



Alex Nail
Registered: Aug 02, 2006
Total Posts: 2717
Country: United Kingdom

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

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



sav0320
Registered: May 13, 2008
Total Posts: 279
Country: United States

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.



fcobb
Registered: Jan 26, 2005
Total Posts: 984
Country: United States

mrladewig wrote:
www.noaa.gov

+1



mxquattro
Registered: Apr 08, 2006
Total Posts: 448
Country: United States

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



yldan
Registered: Oct 06, 2005
Total Posts: 1046
Country: United States

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...



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