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#144815 - 08/19/08 09:43 PM Your favorite source for weather information?
Art_in_FL Offline
Pooh-Bah

Registered: 09/01/07
Posts: 2432
Mine is the Weather Underground:
http://www.wunderground.com/?MR=1

Lots of information, different views available, ability to zoom in and customize what you see and, important for us dial-up internet users, it all works well enough on slow connections.

Check this out, sixteen views of the storm:
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200806_model.html?MR=1

Cool in my book.

I have no affiliations with this site. I just happen to like the ability to track storms and showers. Using this information I can often time jobs and activities to avoid the weather. Often down to the minute.

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#144842 - 08/19/08 11:23 PM Re: Your favorite source for weather information? [Re: Art_in_FL]
Bill_G Offline
Journeyman

Registered: 06/06/08
Posts: 92
I'm a wunderground fan myself. I particularly like the new WunderMap feature. I like seeing the wx related to actual features rather than maps. I also have News 13 available since I live near Orlando. Always know I can get wx every 10 minutes.

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#144843 - 08/19/08 11:24 PM Re: Your favorite source for weather information? [Re: ]
comms Offline
Veteran

Registered: 07/23/08
Posts: 1502
Loc: Mesa, AZ
I like getting my weather reports from the hottest newsbabe on the air with a news channel ball cap hiding a pony tale and wearing a waterproof jacket.

That or some Dumb A$$ news guy standing in the middle of say a hurricane and leaning forward into 100 mph winds just so we can see how bad it is.

weather underground is pretty cool too.
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#144852 - 08/19/08 11:55 PM Re: Your favorite source for weather information? [Re: Art_in_FL]
OldBaldGuy Offline
Geezer

Registered: 09/30/01
Posts: 5695
Loc: Former AFB in CA, recouping fr...
Wunderground and NOAA Weather Radio...
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#144867 - 08/20/08 02:27 AM Re: Your favorite source for weather information? [Re: OldBaldGuy]
BlueSky Offline
Newbie

Registered: 05/08/08
Posts: 36
Loc: DFW TX
I'm also a wunderground fan. I like that there are three different weather stations within a couple miles of my house. They also have the best coverage of tropical storms, IMHO.

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#144869 - 08/20/08 02:36 AM Re: Your favorite source for weather information? [Re: BlueSky]
Angel Offline
Member

Registered: 06/17/06
Posts: 192
I like wunderground too and for hurricanes I also use http://vortex.plymouth.edu/tropical.html as well as wunderground.

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#144903 - 08/20/08 11:42 AM Re: Your favorite source for weather information? [Re: Art_in_FL]
Malpaso Offline
Old Hand

Registered: 09/12/05
Posts: 817
Loc: MA
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/box/ especially the radar links.
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#144916 - 08/20/08 01:16 PM Re: Your favorite source for weather information? [Re: Malpaso]
Kart29 Offline
Stranger

Registered: 07/17/08
Posts: 19
Loc: Indiana
noaa.gov Accept no substitutes. More weather information there than you could digest in a week. It's got it all. I especially like the hour-by-hour graphical forecast and the 3-day history of barometric pressure.

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#145048 - 08/21/08 01:22 AM Re: Your favorite source for weather information? [Re: Art_in_FL]
clarktx Offline
Enthusiast

Registered: 07/01/08
Posts: 250
Loc: Houston, Texas
I use google earth with an NOAA weather overlay (a kml or kmz file), so that I can see the exact path on a real map, with my annotations, without having to estimate.
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