#1

I rarely use a webpage to give me the weather. But I do use web services to provide the weather.

I’m running the “Forecastfox” extension for Firefox in my web browser. I have it configured to tell me the current conditions up to 5 days from now. I also receive alerts via a flashing icon. All of the icons are clickable and they take me to AccuWeather at http://www.accuweather.com/.

I don’t know how the webpage compares to other websites, but I feel informed and trust the source on the occasion that I go there. I particularly like being able to see 15 days in advance. They also have a mix of professional personalities that report the weather via streaming video.

#2

Weather Underground.

This link right here is the current weather conditions within a few hundred yards of my house. It’s from the neighborhood next to mine.

This person has bought a personal weather station kit. It is complete with a webcam. I really like that page because is so, well, “underground”.

I use the Accuweather plug-in for Firefox. It is user friendly. When I hyperlink it gives an updated video for Huntsvegas.

Weather.com has been my default website for several years.

I have not tried Weather Underground. Intriguing.

David Thew
Sojourn Pastor
Thewblog

Intellicast.com is good also. I like the way Intellicast.com organizes and presents historical averages (monthly, daily, etc) weather data and radar maps. Although their graphics aren’t as detailed as weather.com’s radar overlayed on Microsoft Virtual Earth, the Intellicast.com looping radar maps don’t crash my IE when they auto-refresh likes the looping Weather.com’s do…

- Rich

Rich Sturmfels
Diesel Does It

From the perspective of a pilot:

- Weather page from an Van’s Air Force - a homebuilding airplane site that I find myself visiting on a regular basis anyway. The weather page just links a bunch of stuff from NOAA, pretty much. This is all in pilot lingo, but it still is useful.

- Also weathermeister.com is pretty awesome. It gets automated weather reports from all the automatic weather stations at airports and - even if you just get the free one - will give you all the weather at all the airports within 25 miles of the airport that you’re based out of. Again, this is most useful for pilots, but it’s still pretty cool.

- garrett

- garrett (golfsierra.org/blog)

Last night I checked the hour-by-hour forecast on Weather.com and it said during the noon time hour it would start raining. At 12:35, I walked out of Subway and it started raining. Kudos to them.

btw, when did forecasts turn into ’futurecasts?”

I forgot to mention that on my cellphone I use http://mobile.wunderground.com/ to get my weather. I like how it aggregates all kind so pertinent weather information on one light-weight screen (example). The animated radar images are a neat feature also.

I just discovered a nice weather page formatted for mobile devices. It’s actually served up from UAH.edu and uses imagery from one of the world’s most powerful weather radars (yeah, today’s modern weather radars started here in Huntsville).

http://nsstc.uah.edu/alclimate/mobile/index.php?fips=ALC089

That is nice - thanks. I like having the precip chance displayed in the forecast along with predicted temp / sky conditions.

Rich Sturmfels
Diesel Does It