What weather service do you use?

[Darth-Baiter]

I totally use NOAA.  The national weather service actually. I just punched in the wrong city and almost went out tomorrow in huge winds and a big rainstorm.  Gah!  Who knew there was a distant city with the same name as the lake I was gonna try?  
 

my kayak is already loaded in my truck. I guess I can unload it all in the rain tomorrow.  This  is the weirdest spring weather-wise. Strange.  
 

I love the tabular feature on the National Weather Service website.  You can track a day by hour. 

[CrashVector]

Noaa and AccuWeather

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Wunderground 10 day forecast and weather.com radar 

[GRiver]

5 hours ago, CrashVector said:

Noaa and AccuWeather

 

I use these too, But I call my wife the weather girl when I’m out on the water.
She will text me with a simple “ check radar” and I know there is one heading my way.  

Here in Fl we get storms that just pop-up, go crazy, then disappear.  

[fin]

NWS/NOAA is a great service. Not to get political here, but it’s important that people appreciate and understand what we have. There are lots of companies that want to sell the information that NWS/NOAA now provide. I’d hate to lose them.

 

Check out these images: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/index.php

 

Click on the map to see your area. I have no idea what all those are, but I’ve found them helpful before, especially when trying to figure out when the clouds would break.

[BrianMDTX]

I have a weather rock. It’s a large, oval and totally smooth river rock. It’s infallible. Absolutely 100% infallible. 
 

Dry- nice out

Dry and hot- sunny and high temps 

Damp- cool and dewy

Wet- rain

White- snow

Ice- cold

It moved- very windy! 

[J Francho]

Dark Sky and Windy

[Jig Man]

Our local TV stations have weather aps that show daily, hour by hour, and radar.  I have them on my phone, Ipad, and lap top.  I use them before every trip to help me decide whether to go south to Table Rock or north to Stockton.

[LrgmouthShad]

1 hour ago, BrianMDTX said:

I have a weather rock. It’s a large, oval and totally smooth river rock. It’s infallible. Absolutely 100% infallible. 
 

Dry- nice out

Dry and hot- sunny and high temps 

Damp- cool and dewy

Wet- rain

White- snow

Ice- cold

It moved- very windy! 

You forgot a couple

 

Rock jumping up and down: Earthquake

Rock gone: Tornado

[TnRiver46]

I look out the window. We also call it “poplar radar” in Appalachia, climb up a poplar and look around 

4 hours ago, GRiver said:

I use these too, But I call my wife the weather girl when I’m out on the water.
She will text me with a simple “ check radar” and I know there is one heading my way.  

Here in Fl we get storms that just pop-up, go crazy, then disappear.  

That happens to me all over the Deep South, FLA, SC, AL. Craziness 

[Aaron_H]

If I'm checking the weather report at home it's usually AccuWeather, or NOAA if it's going to be a saltwater trip. When I'm on the water, I use the Weatherbug app on my phone for the quick lightning map access.

[Smalliefan2]

NOAA at home, Accu weather and weather bug on my phone.

[A-Jay]

 

A-Jay

[RDB]

I’m a fan of Wind Alert for wind conditions.

[2tall79]

Weatherbug and Windy.com

[slonezp]

Sailflow is pretty accurate for wind and weather.

[gim]

Accuweather on a computer and weather.com app on my phone although lately they’ve added ads so they are losing my attention.

[Unk]

www.wunderground.com  and  www.weather.com  at home for hourly forecast . Once I'm on the water , it's pretty much a wet your finger and hold it up in the air kind of thing . 

[5/0]

28 minutes ago, gimruis said:

weather.com app on my phone although lately they’ve added ads so they are losing my attention.

They are so annoying.

[MickD]

Accuweather and Windfinder.  Where I fish wind predictions are more of interest than weather for planning.  While on the water Accuweather usually is very accurate down to a few minutes of rain coming in.

[BigAngus752]

12 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Wunderground 10 day forecast and weather.com radar 

^^^this exactly^^^

 

Weather Underground's ten day forecast shows you wind speed, temperature, and barometric changes in a rolling, hourly format that you can scroll through with your cursor.  And it's pretty darn accurate.  It shows me that at approximately noon on a particular day the wind is going to pick up and the barometer is going to crash...which means I'm leaving work at 11am...

[LrgmouthShad]

Just now, BigAngus752 said:

^^^this exactly^^^

 

Weather Underground's ten day forecast shows you wind speed, temperature, and barometric changes in a rolling, hourly format that you can scroll through with your cursor.  And it's pretty darn accurate.  It shows me that at approximately noon on a particular day the wind is going to pick up and the barometer is going to crash...which means I'm leaving work at 11am...

Yup. I pay very close attention to this forecast format days in advance. I still go whenever I can, but if I know there is a certain time or day that I should be on the water, I try and get ahead on work so that I can fish during that time. Several times this semester I've told fishing buddies "the fish are gonna bite real good today." I've only been wrong once.

[LrgmouthShad]

19 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

This  is the weirdest spring weather-wise

You can say that again

[DitchPanda]

I don't really hold my breath on any of them...they are all liars. Only job where you can suck and be wrong 100% of the time and people tolerate it.

[Bankbeater]

Wunderground, Weather.com, NOAA, and Accuweather.  On the water I use Wunderground's radar.