Weather or Accuweather

[deereman64]

Great forum. Still no politics though /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[techman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Great forum. Still no politics though /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif )</font>

And I vote to keep it that way !

paul

 

[reb]

I'd vote for the National Weather Service, too. I have bookmarked the page for my zip code. The forecasts are much more accurate that what I got on Accuweather. There I got the information for a town about 70 miles away and at a significantly different altitude. Accuweather is probably good if you live near one of their major reporting sites.

 

[ericinmich]

Good question, I was talking to a few guys at work about this same subject.

Over the last few years, I've been one to check both for future (5+) days forecast for home and vacation spots that we were going to. My opinion is that accuweather seems to do a better job of predicting the forecast (espically rain) for the future. For example, a number of times I've checked and weather.com would show rain (and a high %) where accuweather would say chance of rain, or partly cloudy with a smaller chance of rain. When the weekend or trip comes up, things were not as 'bad' as weather.com indicated.

I've not done a scientific study, but may some day. Something create an excel spreadsheet of the 15day forecast and update it every day, then recording the actual weather.

So the short answer for me is check both, but things (rain) isn't as bad as weather.com would indicate...

 

[HammerFour]

The thing I notice most about weather.com and 'The Weather Channel' is the 'sky is falling' method of weather prediction and weather coverage.

For instance, today they kept showing Lincoln, NE and talking up this huge amount of snowfall and how the roads were packed and treacherous. I'm not sure how they are now, but the footage they were showing showed a bit of slush on the roads and some snow falling, but by no means the end of the world as we know it.

These folks like to keep people tuned into their website and the weather channel by predicting imminent doom it seems to me. If I need a worst case prediction, I look at the weather channel, if I want an average case prediction I look at the www.noaa.gov site. WeatherUnderground seems to be ok, I haven't tried accuweather so far.

 

[deereman64]

Over the end of the year holiday season I ve noticed that prior to christmas the weather man are not keen to emphasize inclement weather.. stops people shopping. After christmas though its button down the hatches.

 

[MikePA]

<font color="blue"> Over the end of the year holiday season I ve noticed that prior to christmas the weather man are not keen to emphasize inclement weather.. stops people shopping. </font>
...and did you ever notice their radar never picks up the black helicopters? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[khd]

I've traditionally used intellicast becuase of radar but I recently installed a pluging for Firefox called forcastfox enhanced which puts some icons down in the status bar of Firefox. Roll you mouse over an icon get current and two day forcast, regional radar and severe alerts all without leaving the page you are on. Just roll your mouse and a little window pops up. Roll off and it disappears. Uses Accuweather.

Kevin

 

[Egon]

I use the aching joint weather prediction channel. It's comes pretty close.

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[avorancher]

I use some of the above, but lately I've been using this site and bookmarked my particular region. So far, it has been pretty accurate on the hour-by-hour prediction... at least within a couple hours which is better than others.

NOAA graphical forecasts