Weather or Accuweather

deereman64 · Mar 19, 2006

Which web site do you prefer/find more accurate accuweather.com or weather.com? I use both these web sites, but tend to look more at accuweather. I like their lead stories showing the intereaction of air masses etc and the 15 fday forecast is nice. However, my feeling is for these longer forecasts weather tends to be more accurate whilst accuweather gets a little bit carried away sometimes. I live in new york and would be interested if other people have the same experience

techman · Mar 19, 2006

I like www.wunderground.com far better than either of the other two. They have an especially good presentation of tropical/hurricane weather.

Also www.intellicast.com seems to have the best presentation of radar, NEXTRAD and loops for each.

paul

Bird · Mar 19, 2006

I've looked at most of the others from time to time, but I routinely use the National Weather Service. Even though it's the "Southern Region" you can get the weather and radar almost anywhere in the country.

deereman64 · Mar 19, 2006

Yes wunderground is good, but I sense I pick up a lot of sticky ads from that site

HappyCPE · Mar 19, 2006

I always use wunderground. If you give them five bucks, you don't get any ads. I figure it is worth it since I hit the site 2-4 times a day.

ronjhall · Mar 19, 2006

Accuweather seems to do a better job of providing good marine weather for my area of the great lakes. For everyday weather I use weather.com. Because Comcast uses them on their home page.

TMcD_in_MI · Mar 19, 2006

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I always use wunderground. If you give them five bucks, you don't get any ads. I figure it is worth it since I hit the site 2-4 times a day. )</font>

Good call, Happy. I do exactly the same thing. I've been using WeatherUnderground since they started, and five bucks a year is cheap for no ads.

Tom

Freds · Mar 20, 2006

I've never heard of wunderground. I'll have to give them a try, but I currently use accuweather (just left their website) and they are very good at predicting even the hour it will start raining around here.

Dutch445 · Mar 20, 2006

For some interesting reading, and insight on forecasting, the weather guys have a forum that I follow,, mostly for the East/Northeast region.. it's:
EasternUS weather forum
very interesting stuff!
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