Favorite weather site?

[Ed62]

I usually go to accuweather.com or wunderground.com . What's yours?

Ed

[AndyF]

I like the XHTML site at weather.com for my Windows Mobile phone:
http://xhtml.weather.com/

It's simple.

Not bad with a regular web browser either. No extraneous ads or video clips.

wunderground is good to watch during hurricane season.

I like the radar views at http://www.intellicast.com/ though.


Andy

[Ed62]

I'll let you know what we get. Here's the forecast from that site:
A HEAVY SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM CST SUNDAY.

LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW WILL GRADUALLY INTENSIFY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW EXPECTED FROM MID EVENING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. STORM TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 6 TO 10 INCHES IS EXPECTED...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS CLOSER TO ONE FOOT POSSIBLE. THE INCREASING INTENSITY OF THE SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT WILL MAKE FOR HAZARDOUS TRAVEL ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS MANY ROADS BECOME SNOW PACKED. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY SNOW ACCUMULATION...NORTH WINDS WILL STRENGTHEN THROUGH THE EVENING WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. THIS WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES. SNOW WILL TAPER TO LIGHT SNOW AND FLURRIES ON SUNDAY MORNING.

A HEAVY SNOW WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

Ed

[Daryl]

Weather Channel for local weather and forcasts
http://www.weather.com/outlook/homea...rGardenCommand

And the dopplers to see it happening

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_lite.php

[MilDoc]

National Weather Service

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...2=-97.9018&e=0

[Alex Franke]

I usually check weather.yahoo.com, weather.msn.com, weather.com (Weather Channel), and weather.gov (National Weather Service). Which ever gives me the at-a-glance forecast that I want to see is the one that I read in more detail.

[Richard in Smithville]

Up here in the Great White North, we just observe the Polar Bears.

Seriously though, I usually look on The Weather Networkor Environment Canada

[guycox]

San Diego, CA or Brisbane. Queensland.

[gary]

Full National View Map http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

[linear]

Okay, this is for those of you who are already using Google Earth.

Go here to build a custom .kmz file with radar overlays for any stations you want to include (that would usually be your local area).

Since the original post didn't specify forecast site (and this isn't one), I think this is an exceptionally cool and useful weather tool. Often I find myself asking questions the weather bunnies on local teevee don't answer, and forecast sites don't even address. "How far away is some piece of bad weather right now" is the usual form of those questions. This tool is excellent for that.

You only need to go to the NOAA site once to build your overlay(s) then you just open Google earth to view them as you need. If you use the boxes in the center column of the NOAA site, you get a .kmz file with multiple individual layers that you can individually enable for different sites and different types of radar.

If you ever wanted more weather radar info than you are used to getting, here it is.

The attachment shows my file showing the Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita stations. The ones west of me see stuff before it gets to me.

[Jeffrey Schronce]

wunderground.com