What is the most consistently accurate weather forecast resource you've found?

[Janie]

I use The Weather Channel, our local TV weather, and NOAA National Weather Service.

 

Just wondering what you've found that is the most spot-on.

 

Thanks!

[Margo out of lurking]

This wouldn't have anything to do with our surprise snow this morning, would it?

 

:lol::lol::lol:

 

I'm waiting to see if the first basketball tournament of the season will be cancelled....:glare:

[lisamarie]

Nothing is reliable more than a day out. On Thursday, both weather.com and noaa said that we would be getting up to 8 inches of snow yesterday. When I checked the weather reports yesterday, they'd downgraded it to about 4 inches--which was a huge disappointment in my house. The weather reports are always changing.

 

But if someone has found a reliable forecast, please share. I would love to check it out.:lol:

[Lolly]

My dog goes ditzy before it snows. She is fairly accurate.:glare:

 

Oh, you mean news sources. No, I don't think there is one out there that can even come close!:D

[Dobela]

 

www.accuweather.com is my favorite online source. I have a local news source I prefer as well. Several years ago I worked with a woman whose dh worked for the National weather service. She said that for long term predictions they made 3 potential scenarios for each weather day. ONe was considered conservative, middle of the road, and one was a not so conservative look. For example, depending on how quickly the wet air comes in from the gulf and meets that cold front, we could have no snow, an inch or 3, or a foot of snow. Interestingly, she said that of our 3 local weather stations, one usually prefered the conservative preditions, one usually chose the middle of the road predictions, and one often chose the last possible scenario.

[Cinder]

My dh prefers Intellicast. He's more concerned about weather, though, as it affects his work. I don't know that it's any better than anything else out there, but it's his favorite resource. Some things just can't be predicted well. Like that 500 Year Flood we got in GA in 2009.

[SailorMom]

DH (a pilot) uses Intellicast frequently, but even it is wrong frequently.

[Amy in NH]

My dh prefers Intellicast.

 

:iagree:

 

For local weather, it is VERY accurate. It is one tab I always keep open.

[laughing lioness]

NOAA. Home page here :001_smile:

[Mejane]

Looking out the window. I don't believe it until I see it, or don't. ;)

[Brigitte]

Looking out the window. I don't believe it until I see it, or don't. ;)

 

Same here. None of the forecasts around here are very accurate in terms of precipitation. Temperature seems to generally be on target, but rain and snow are never what they predict.

[Giraffe]

My back is pretty good at telling me when low pressure systems are coming through. Precipitation, less accurate unless the aforementioned Low accompanies it.

 

For internet - I like Weather Underground, but it's good more for current conditions than future.

 

I like one guy on the local tv, but how accurate is he? Meh...

[Tap]

One of our local stations seems to be the most accurate to me. National forecasts are rarely accurate here.

[OLG]

Right here:http://www.wunderground.com/

 

Small plane pilots use it!

[wulfbourne]

Not sure where you are, but I like http://www.footsforecast.org/

[Beth in OH]

This one, posted today on my friend's blog:

 

To know with certainty

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Todd Augsburger

The forecast for today is “Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers.†Does anybody really know what a “40% chance†even means? Is it less than if we give it half a chance? Does it mean there’s a 60% chance it won’t snow? If there was 100% chance, would there still be a chance it wouldn’t? If you really want to know, look up “Probability of Precipitation (PoP)“.

 

I like to joke about the weather. (Sorry, meteorologists.) But how sure am I about the things that really matter? That question reminds me of a cartoon I once saw, where the philosopher Descartes ponders, “I think, therefore I am … I think.†Or it reminds me of the friend who thought it safer to “believe†and perhaps be wrong, than to disbelieve. I want neither of those two options–I want to know with certainty.

 

Neither science nor philosophy are sufficient to give us assurance of the spiritual things we’ve been taught. You can’t prove spiritual truths without spiritual input. That’s why the letter to the Colossians says that your assurance comes because “Christ lives in youâ€, and 1Thessalonians says that “the Holy Spirit gave you full assurance†that what was taught was true. God himself is, and must be, the source of our confidence.

 

I once before mentioned Hebrews 11:1, because I find it such an astounding verse. “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.†Faith is the confidence, the understanding that what we anticipate will happen. Put simply, “By faith, we know what to expect.†It gives us assurance, confidence, conviction, proof of what we can’t physically see. Faith brings to light what is otherwise hidden.

 

I guess what I’m saying is that the phrase “100% chance of eternity†is not in my vocabulary, but an “assurance of eternity†is, because assurance comes not from my own understanding, but from God himself. Who holds eternity, and who lives in me–see how that works? He makes, and is, the connection between me and eternity.

 

The forecast? Guaranteed: Today, followed by eternity.

:) Beth