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Title: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: garbon on May 23, 2013, 08:51:57 PM
Right now if I look at the weather, google lists 80% chance of precipitation.  My old stalwart the weather channel lists a 0% chance of precipitation. One of the two is certainly off base and I've found that historically they contradict one another. So I ask Languish, who is your trusted weather source?*

*at the moment I have none and generally feel like:

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Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: MadBurgerMaker on May 23, 2013, 09:54:28 PM
Weather.com and Accuweather (on my phone, Beautiful Widgets).  They both seem to line up pretty well.  I used to use Google on my phone, but I was sometimes getting strange info that wasn't reflecting what I was looking at outside so I switched the app over.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Grey Fox on May 24, 2013, 07:48:43 AM
Accuweather from HD Widgets. I had the same problem with google than MBM.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 24, 2013, 07:54:29 AM
I watch the rabbits at the shelter;  they start going bonkers when the barometric pressure drops, and toss their toys around.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Neil on May 24, 2013, 08:00:51 AM
Google is fucking useless for weather.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Syt on May 24, 2013, 08:05:54 AM
http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/aktuell
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Valmy on May 24, 2013, 08:08:15 AM
My Cell phone has a weather ap thing that came with it.  I have no idea what the source for its information is.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Ed Anger on May 24, 2013, 08:08:20 AM
If my leg pains me, a storm is comin'. Then toss my toys around.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Brazen on May 24, 2013, 08:15:40 AM
Another vote for Accuweather; even the hour by hour prediction is pretty good.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 24, 2013, 08:17:12 AM
I'm partial to the groping Amanda Seyfried method of weather forecasting as well.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: garbon on May 24, 2013, 09:03:37 AM
Quote from: Neil on May 24, 2013, 08:00:51 AM
Google is fucking useless for weather.

Yeah it does seem that way. From what I recall, I didn't get rained on last night.

@Teach - :D
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: garbon on May 24, 2013, 09:12:33 AM
Ugh, apparently (according to wiki), weatherbug is the 2nd most checked weather site after weather.com.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on May 24, 2013, 09:15:07 AM
I look out of the window and assume the weather will stay the same.

Unless it is pissing down with rain, in that case I consult the local BBC forecast for Preston and work out my best chance of avoiding rain whilst taking my constitutional.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Josquius on May 24, 2013, 09:21:29 AM
You know, I don't check the weather at all these days. I just take it for granted it will be reasonably fine and that someone will tell be if something freaky is to happen someday.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Barrister on May 24, 2013, 09:24:03 AM
I have noticed that good old Environment Canada tends to be much more accurate than the Weather Channel, or whatever weather app is on my iPod.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Zanza on May 24, 2013, 09:47:47 AM
Quote from: Brazen on May 24, 2013, 08:15:40 AM
Another vote for Accuweather; even the hour by hour prediction is pretty good.
This.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: lustindarkness on May 24, 2013, 10:02:40 AM
WeatherBug on my phone, works just fine.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/ on computer.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 24, 2013, 10:23:47 AM
I have the MyRadar Pro app for my iHipster;  it does a better job pushing out weather alerts than TWC app.
Has different map layers, radar types and also tracks hurricanes, tropical storms and other types of warnings.  Pretty cool to use.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: fhdz on May 24, 2013, 10:34:43 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 24, 2013, 08:08:20 AM
If my leg pains me, a storm is comin'. Then toss my toys around.

:lol:
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: fhdz on May 24, 2013, 10:35:39 AM
Accuweather and Weather Underground. Both are really accurate from my perspective.

The nice thing about Accuweather is that it ties into a lot of different phone apps.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: derspiess on May 24, 2013, 10:38:56 AM
Weather.com is usually the most solid for me.  I usually use the Android widget (Accuweather) because I'm lazy, but it's not always as accurate as weather.com.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 24, 2013, 12:35:44 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 24, 2013, 08:08:20 AM
If my leg pains me, a storm is comin'. Then toss my toys around.

:D

I follow the Tricky method myself.
Title: Re: Who do you turn to for weather reports?
Post by: viper37 on May 24, 2013, 01:29:22 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 23, 2013, 08:51:57 PM
Right now if I look at the weather, google lists 80% chance of precipitation.  My old stalwart the weather channel lists a 0% chance of precipitation. One of the two is certainly off base and I've found that historically they contradict one another. So I ask Languish, who is your trusted weather source?*

*at the moment I have none and generally feel like:

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F24.media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_lo4qyrsKSQ1qdqlhzo1_500.gif&hash=9f97d5a52d2dc5cd6fe24b8eff23ae0363140687)

Météomédia.  The Weather Channel.  They are usually ok for big cities, but for the countryside, there's another one people keep referring me to, but I completely forgot.  It's a retired meteorologist with his own instruments, and for the area, he has better predictions than Environment Canada, wich closed a bunch of meteo stations all over the countryside, including the one in Quebec city.