Most Accurate Weather Website?

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Scott Free

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When an important outdoor day is approaching, I usually check a couple different weather sites, and then choose the weather that I like best. :)

I don't check multiple sites often enough to have an opinion as to which is most accurate.

I usually look at weather.com. If an important outdoor happening is involved, I'll check weatherunderground. If I still don't like the forecast, I'll try accuweather. :)

If you have a favorite weather site, have you actually compared it to others and found yours to be most accurate?
 
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i use the national weather service site for the forecast and either weather underground or intellicast for the radar. cant make heads or tail out of the nws radar.
 
I use weatherbug or occasionally acuweather but I wouldn't say any of them are very accurate more than a few hours in advance.
 
I like wunderground. We got desert, mountains, inland valleys, and coastal weather. Their wundermap feature seems to handle the micro-climates we have in San Diego better than the others.
 
Our local NBC Affiliate, KSDK, has their own Doppler radar and all, so I have their App on the ipad. As well, I've got the NOAA App which features automatic warnings and uses a high-quality doppler scan as well.
When it was launched, Weatherbug was largely a vehicle for delivering ads and spam.... I don't know if they've improved it.
 
I look out the window, see which way what kind of clouds are blowing, -- and bring an umbrella anyway. :p
 
I live halfway between two communities with weather forecasts, and for my area I just 'half the difference' and for most part it works. Watching the sky, observing the winds and wildlife often produce more accurate results.
 
When it was launched, Weatherbug was largely a vehicle for delivering ads and spam.... I don't know if they've improved it.
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That's what I remember too. That spyware/adware junk could bring Windows 98 to a standstill. :)
 
mwerner said:
When it was launched, Weatherbug was largely a vehicle for delivering ads and spam.... I don't know if they've improved it.
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I ponied up the $1.99 for the Elite version (no ads, a few extra features) and never regretted it. The radar is very up to date (within a few minutes), much better than the Weather Channel app. To-the-minute radar is very helpful to me, being a cyclist during monsoon season.

Almost any free app will have ads, but not all give you the option for an ad free version for a pittance. I haven't tried the NOAA app yet.
 
If you want great radar, check out Radarscope. It costs a bit more, but the radar is going to be more precise and up to date that any other app. If you want forcast, go with NOAA.
 
On the computer the NWS can't be beat

the accuweather paid features are really cool but not worth the price for me


for iphone/ipad

Best radar by far is radarscope, it used to be a direct feed from the nws and faster than the nws website.

weatherbug is useful for local weather conditions and there is a station less than a mile from my house

Weatherunderground and their wundermap for ipad is really nice as well
 
NOAA is what we use for our square kilometer evapo-transpiration readings. The nation is grided out into microzones. I can say that no one gets it right 100% of the time, reporting I mean, predicting is another story all together.
 
If you have the proper short wave radio you can get the Noaa report .Still the best----except the Global Warming people's report , that will be accurate out to al least 50 years !!
 
NOAA is the best.
Weather channel is the worst. They can't get the current weather down, let alone what it's going to be doing an hour from now. Plus, maybe it's just me, but averaging the day's chance of precipitation seems like flawed logic. If there's a 100% chance that it's going to rain at 9:00pm on Tuesday, there's a 100% chance that it's going to rain on Tuesday, there's not a 30% chance that it's going to rain because the rest of the day's weather is supposed to be clear. :confused:
 
I have a NOAA weather radio, an indoor outdoor thermometer, and usually use "Accu Weather" or NOAA app on my phone
 
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