What Internet weather service do you use?

July 31, 2019, 10:10 AM

RogueJSK

Weather.com (The Weather Channel) on my laptop, and the Weather Channel widget on my cell phone (constantly displays current conditions on my home screen, and tapping it displays extended forecast and other details).

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July 31, 2019, 10:13 AM

RogueJSK

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
Tried the Weather Channel but it's too bloated with crap/ads and takes forever to load maps and the data you actually want to see.

I use an adblocker, so I have no problems with their website. And their mobile app/widget has no ads.

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July 31, 2019, 10:19 AM

OKCGene

SpaghettiModels.com linl. No Jim, it’s not a pretty girl site, it’s a real weather service.

Ventusky.com link

Weather.gov National Weather Service linl. Just enter your zip code or town in the search block

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July 31, 2019, 10:29 AM

I grew to hate the Weather Channel on my desktop but the WC app preloaded on my iPhone is great. Simple screen, no ads, just the facts, and a swipe of the screen gets me all the locations I’ve entered.

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July 31, 2019, 10:46 AM

Gene Hillman

quote:
Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
I've been using Wunderground, but it's been screwed up lately. What does the hive use?

I have used Wunderground for a long time. Specifically, what is "screwed up" about it? I have found it frequently doesn't load or if it does, it doesn't move to hourly or ten day forecasts. However my lovely wife seems to be able to bring it right in on her computer which is on the same server as mine. Kind of a puzzle.

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July 31, 2019, 11:08 AM

DougE

quote:
Originally posted by RNshooter:
A lot of the aviation people I know use Dark Skies.

Bruce

This is what I use. I have the paid version of the app on my phone ( I think it's a buck 99 per year), and use the web based one on my PCs.

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July 31, 2019, 11:19 AM

sig229-SAS

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Originally posted by bigeinkcmo:
I'd suggest you get the MyRadar app for your phone. You can see very accurate radar and wind data that's near real-time. More current than on the websites in my experience. Seems to work almost everywhere, even on low-speed cellular connections. I use the wind and radar layers in conjunction to get a pretty solid picture of what's coming my way.

I agree, I use it quite a bit, forecasts are just that, a 'forecast' and often wrong or overstated. The radar is live and active so you see direction of travel and the strength of the events.

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July 31, 2019, 11:49 AM

Sr_Bull

NWS for my day to day forecast and real time local radar.

SpaghettiModels as mentioned above for hurricane season. A great website with a lot of info and charts aggregated into one website.

July 31, 2019, 12:01 PM

Pipe Smoker

I have several weather apps on my iPhone, but I primarily use Wunderground. It has a simple graphical display that shows a graph of temps for the past several days and predicted temps for today, and several future days. And I can select from several San Diego weather stations: the official US Government weather station, or one near my home.

The predictions are usually too optimistic– predicting warmer than actual in the winter, cooler than actual in the summer. But by looking at the previous actual, and remembering the prediction, I can figure what the actual will be today.