Posted on 04/01/2017 7:59:36 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
Wunderground used to have the ability to display cells that had hail in them but not anymore. What apps or weather sites do you use and why?
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Kfor weather radar from a regional news channel. They have they most sophisticated severe weather radar map for all US.
I use that and weather.gov for all my weather. Do not go to click bait weather.com or weather underground.
I use that one as well, but unfortunately it doesn’t have a hail overlay. Thanks for sharing though.
We use Weather Bug. I like it because I live in FL and the app very accurately shows nearby lightning strikes. Very handy because my son plays football and baseball and the weather can be vastly different between here and school so I know if I need to leave early to fetch him.
Second the motion for “forecast.weather.gov” for your area. I especially like the “Forecast Discussion” link at the bottom where you get the inner-thoughts of the analysts that run the forecast models and how they’re interpreting them (it’s really NOT an exact science!)
For real-time radar, I use AccuWeather’s Interactive Radar map for my area. Lets you replay the last hour plus of time at 15-min intervals, and does a pretty good job at matching what I’m seeing out the window. Can’t speak to advertising issues there, as I use ad-blockers on my browser,
intellicast.com
Radar Scope.
+1 for WeatherBug and I use Weather underground on the smart phone as well.
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Accuweather.
Sometimes their extended forecasts suck, but they are generally pretty reliable when it comes to wind direction and speed, which is a major concern to me in my work when we have controlled open burning to do.
I still have Weather Matrix. It shows a small graphic of current weather. It USED to show temp, etc., but that quit working a couple of years ago.
I tried WeatherMate as an alternative. It worked okay, but several months ago, it quit loading maps. The temp shows up in the system tool bar.
I have looked for alternative ‘desktop’ apps, but most were too bloated with ads and junk.
Now, I primarily use the Firefox Forecastfox app. There is also a Chrome version, but I have not used it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/forecastfox-fix-version/
My Radar on my android phone. Nothing fancy but has a bullseye you can place over a city and get the temp.
I check a lot of radar sites- I trust none of them. The radar colors are manipulated. Red USED to mean severe, but too many times heavy weather indicated by radar is NOT what is outside.Light green ‘rain’ isn’t even visible. Don’t know the reason, but radar usually does NOT tell you what kind of weather is outside, not in my area anyway.
“intellicast.com”
Same here plus real time lightening map.
I've also been using Intellicast as a backup. It has a feature that allows one to zoom in down to an area the size of one's neighborhood, which I would like to try out more.
As a trucker Ive tried a few but My Radar is the best.
The Accuweather website tries to bring in lots of crap from lots of domains; but they get blocked by my Firefox add-ons (NoScript and uBlock Origin). To get the radar to work, only the accuweather.com and virtualearth.net domains need to be whitelisted. The other dozen or so can be left blocked.
By contrast, the goverment site only brings in scripting from one domain (weather.gov), has no ads and uBlock Origin says it's squeaky clean. The only issue I have with the government site is that it's becoming obsolete because of Flash-dependence.
If you go to Jeff Masters’ blog on WU, the denizens are very good at posting new pages when they’re not foaming about Trump. I update all my weather links there at the beginning of tornado/cane season.
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