What is a good long term weather radar prediction site?

[newbury]

I make great use of weather radar for planning projects. I know it is not precise and things change but I'd like to find on that "predicts" the farthest out in the future.

Like at this time I'm trying to plan a trip to NE Mississippi and avoid heavy rain from Alberto.

This one does 72 hours. Anyone know of one that does more?

Links please.

 

[M5farms]

LOL, Predicting the weather is akin to pick lottery numbers 1 out of 1millon meteorologist might get it right .

Radar is only going to give you current conditions and the forecast radars are not reliable . Mississippi has no real impact from alberto and likley wont see any major rain . We are in the south so it can rain anytime in the afternoon anyday of the week.

 

[CobyRupert]

I've always liked this one:
Intellicast - Mississippi State Weather Report in Mississippi (39762)

Edit: This is a weather forecast, NOT a future radar imagery "forecast". Sorry if its not what you want. I don't think extended hour by hour, mapped location by location predictions are possible too far into the future.

 

[randy41]

Tropical Tidbits
this one has a lot of forecast models you can look at

 

[YLee Kioti]

Used this during Harvey: Ventusky - Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps


The wind speeds are more accurate then the corporate feed from local metro areas.

 

[deezler]

Future radar is pretty poor in accuracy. Especially for pop-up type thunderstorms. I typically just stick with weather.com or similar. use the hourly forecast to see about when the rain could occur, and use the future radar for a 2-3 hour window, tops. Anything beyond that is pretty much just a weird guess by a computer model.

 

[John Fitzgerald]

From what I have observed (and I observe every storm) future radar is almost completely worthless.

 

[newbury]

Tropical Tidbits
this one has a lot of forecast models you can look at

Very interesting, I like how I can step through.

Used this during Harvey: Ventusky - Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps


The wind speeds are more accurate then the corporate feed from local metro areas.

THANKS!
That is about what I was looking for.

 

[dmccarty]

Used this during Harvey: Ventusky - Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps
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There are other websites that show weather and moving wind speed/direction. They certainly help one visualize the weather. I looked at the link and they don't say which weather model they are using. I am assuming the US model since it is free. The other weather model people use is the European model but I do not know of a way to access that data.

Here is a screen shot of the Ventusky website weather:



Here is a screen shot of the same weather pattern, though the timing might be off by a few hours since it is not dynamic. Not sure the Ventusky view is really current time. The little arrows are the wind direction and speed. The more "flags" on the arrows the faster the wind.



The second screen shot is from a program called ViewFax which pulls in the US weather model. It will show weather out to 10 days but after 3-4 days it really starts to be more of a guesstimate.

Just because one of the weather models says something will happen, does not mean it will. A weather model that seems to have quite a bit of precision does not mean the weather prediction will be precise. If I really want to know, or have a chance at knowing the weather, I read the real professionals at NOAA. National Weather Service. They use models plus their experience to make their weather guesses. Here is a link to their short and long term forecasts, National Forecast Maps

Later,
Dan

 

[Stimw]

You can go to NOAA and enter a city to get an up to the minute report and future forcast.
I found a NOAA site that gives info on an Air Park about 8 miles away for my local radar viewing.