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Weather app or site that is accurate (1 Viewer)

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I usually use weather.com but it is absolutely awful. It will be raining for 5 straight hours and weather.com says 0% chance of rain.

I know nothing is perfect when it comes to the weather but does anyone have a go to that is more accurate or works at least most of the time. I have an android phone for apps if that is the way you roll

Thanks

 
a few recommendations in here

But I use The Weather Channel app, just to get an idea of the temperature. And I just check out the radar for precipitation chances. Of course, that only goes so far in advance, so you may be at the mercy of the app/site you choose. Just look at several and get an average and you'll probably be better off :lol:

 
Hot and ####### humid where I am at. Had not looked at a weather app in the past three months, but recently I'm checking to see if the temp hits 100.

 
Forecast is just an educated guess; it's a decent guideline but shouldn't be terribly surprising when wrong. Radar monitoring is your best bet

 
I use the Weather Channel and local TV app. The NBC affiliate here in Charlotte has won awards for accuracy but they tend to lowball high temp forecast in my experience. Weather channel usually hits the temp better and it has its moments for other things. I remember last winter everyone was predicting big snow fall here. Everyone but the Weather Channel which predicted trace at best. They nailed it and everyone else was way off.

 
NCCommish said:
I use the Weather Channel and local TV app. The NBC affiliate here in Charlotte has won awards for accuracy but they tend to lowball high temp forecast in my experience. Weather channel usually hits the temp better and it has its moments for other things. I remember last winter everyone was predicting big snow fall here. Everyone but the Weather Channel which predicted trace at best. They nailed it and everyone else was way off.
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Confused. Don't all media outlets get their weather data and forecasts from .gov?

 
ChiefD said:
Andrew74 said:
I use Wunderground (iPhone) and it is pretty solid IMO.
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This. Use this all the time.
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Me three.

It's the most reliable one I've used. I like the interface, and it's reliable too (i.e. doesn't crash).

One caveat - Don't look at ANY forecast for more than 2 days out and expect it to remain the same. I have yet to see any site that is really accurate more than a few days out. If you see high-percentage rain on Saturday, and it's Monday, there's a pretty good chance you'll get rain sometime between Thursday and the following Monday. Forecasts move a lot in a few days.

 
RUSF18 said:
www.weather.gov
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This is kind of the ultimate in weather...but it's really hard to understand some of what is going on. When I flew a lot, I used this and aviationweather.gov to look at significant upper-air currents, turbulence, and fronts before flying for longer trips. It's very accurate, but they basically provide you with the information and leave a lot of the implications and true "forecasting" up to the user.

 
"MyRadar" for myself and the hmm the weather forecast seems off feeling.

Same with "weather in motion" at weather.com clicking the future button. It might not match the text, but I don't wholly think it's that difficult to determine if a storm is coming.

This by accuweather

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.accuweather.android&hl=en

I like the minute by minute forecast which shows me some real high effort, if not accuracy.

In OK, I need to know excessive rain or tornado. I'll use these often for a few months. Don't care so much about weather the rest of the year.

 
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The one bit of info I retained from a Geography class years ago: when the weather babe says there's a 40% chance of rain, she means that it IS going to rain, but only in 40% of the area.

#themoreyouknow

#ifailedthisclass

 
Fat Nick said:
RUSF18 said:
www.weather.gov
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This is kind of the ultimate in weather...but it's really hard to understand some of what is going on. When I flew a lot, I used this and aviationweather.gov to look at significant upper-air currents, turbulence, and fronts before flying for longer trips. It's very accurate, but they basically provide you with the information and leave a lot of the implications and true "forecasting" up to the user.
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I just use the basic forecast info and the Hourly Weather Graph for stuff like expected temperature (plus "feels like"), precipitation potential at different times, and expected amounts.

That last part is the most important...a 20% chance of rain vs an 80% chance of rain will pretty much not matter to me at all if the expected rain amount ends up being 0.08 inches. If the expected is for 0.80 inches, different story.

Also...a 30% chance of rain for the day tells me one thing. But seeing the graph of the % chance of rain throughout the day could have me re-thinking happy hour at the outdoor bar if they have it spiking to 60% chance between 5 and 7 pm.

Etc.

 
Take some meteorology classes, whip up some computer models. If you find your forecasts are a little off, most likely you forgot to factor in the Coriolis Effect.

 
Mister CIA said:
NCCommish said:
I use the Weather Channel and local TV app. The NBC affiliate here in Charlotte has won awards for accuracy but they tend to lowball high temp forecast in my experience. Weather channel usually hits the temp better and it has its moments for other things. I remember last winter everyone was predicting big snow fall here. Everyone but the Weather Channel which predicted trace at best. They nailed it and everyone else was way off.
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Confused. Don't all media outlets get their weather data and forecasts from .gov?
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To a degree. But forecasting the weather is more than raw data. Which models so you use that data in? How well do you know the local geography? As that effects weather. The daily forecast still has a bit of art and guessing to it.

 
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I've used wunderground for a long time now, but it's bugging me this winter. Seemingly 90% of the time, there is a severe weather alert for our area, but when you click on it, it turns out to be just a "small craft advisory" (something about wind and waves and blah blah blah).  No one is out boating in the finger lakes at this time of year, so the alert is meaningless. So I'm at the point where I don't ignore the alert and then get mildly annoyed or I ignore it and feel I might miss an actual winter weather alert with practical implications. 

I assume it has more to do with the way the weather service reports it to them than something wunderground changed, but does anyone know if there is a way of turning off specific types of weather alerts? 

 
That one guy said:
Forecast is just an educated guess; it's a decent guideline but shouldn't be terribly surprising when wrong. Radar monitoring is your best bet
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Yeah, that is understandable.  But it is when they get the current conditions wrong that is troublesome. 

 
As some have mentioned WeatherUnderground is pretty good.

When we go to Canada for 6 to 8 days it has become the main site I use to pack accordingly and print out to take with us up to the Cabin since there is no TV, radio, internet or phone at the cabin.

I usually review weather.com, Accuweather, and a couple Canada weather sites.
But at the end of the day, weather underground has been the closet to predicting a week out.. :thumbup:

 
snogger said:
As some have mentioned WeatherUnderground is pretty good.

When we go to Canada for 6 to 8 days it has become the main site I use to pack accordingly and print out to take with us up to the Cabin since there is no TV, radio, internet or phone at the cabin.
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Honestly don't think I could do this for a week. 

What if there's an emergency at home or at work?  What if there's a huge blowout between the mods and rodcarew84?  No way could I be this disconnected in today's day and age. 

 
Otis said:
snogger said:
As some have mentioned WeatherUnderground is pretty good.

When we go to Canada for 6 to 8 days it has become the main site I use to pack accordingly and print out to take with us up to the Cabin since there is no TV, radio, internet or phone at the cabin.
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Honestly don't think I could do this for a week. 

What if there's an emergency at home or at work?  What if there's a huge blowout between the mods and rodcarew84?  No way could I be this disconnected in today's day and age. 
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I do it twice a year, Usually in June and then again in September or October..... No Phone calls, No TV, No Radio, no Internet..
Really, nothing better then being "Unplugged" for a week and truly enjoying nature, fishing and conversations with friends/family. :thumbup:

We do have a Satellite Phone in case there is an emergency at the Cabin, and all loved ones back in the states have a Phone number to a lodge that is an hour boat trip away from us in case something happens back home.

 
wunderground and darksky are my two apps.  I like dark sky for an easy to read hourly forecast. Last time I went skiing it showed "snow" starting at 3pm. At 2 o'clock the sky was blue, so I thought maybe it was gonna be wrong. Right around 2:40 it started snowing. 

 
Weather underground has an app called Storm which has futurecast and the ability to see storm tracks. It's pretty useful during the spring/summertime for dangerous weather. 

 
I really like weather widgets that tell you a lot of information at a glance. My favorites are:

~12 hour forecast: InstaWeather for Android(It LOOKS like it's only a watch app but it has a pretty nice phone widget)

~24 hour forecast: Aix Weather Widget

~10 DAY forecast: Weather Bomb

I don't think these get the love they should. Weather can be pretty unpredictable(especially 10 days out) but I think they all do a reasonable job. 

 
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