What do you use for weather forecasts

Shaun Carollo

Shaun Carollo

Slave to Swirls
I don't know if it's my location or if it is like this in all parts of the world, but I cannot get a weather forecast that is accurate more then 2 days ahead. They say if you don't like the weather in Michigan, to wait 10 minutes so I don't know, could be a local thing. It hasn't been affecting business too bad aside from having to reschedule a couple details here and there, but today I think that it probably cost me a four car account with a new client. What do you all use to schedule your details around? I have been using www.weather.com (weather channel) and it is always flip flopping on me at the last minute.

Thanks in Advance,
Shaun
 
Shaun Carollo said:
I don't know if it's my location or if it is like this in all parts of the world, but I cannot get a weather forecast that is accurate more then 2 days ahead. They say if you don't like the weather in Michigan, to wait 10 minutes so I don't know, could be a local thing. It hasn't been affecting business too bad aside from having to reschedule a couple details here and there, but today I think that it probably cost me a four car account with a new client. What do you all use to schedule your details around? I have been using www.weather.com (weather channel) and it is always flip flopping on me at the last minute.

Thanks in Advance,
Shaun
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Seems like with all the dopler radar they have it would be more accurte but who knows...this is the web site that I use and it seems to work for me...here in CA its not that hard for the weather forecasters

http://www.wunderground.com/
 
I use accuweather with forcastfox for Firefox. So its always in the corner of my browser, but for detailing and such, I have weather on my cell phone, so I just pop the radar out and figure out for myself if its going to rain and how long it should take to get here. For extended forcasts, I think most places are the same, the meteroligists all have the same maps of the weather patterns and for the most part agree to some degree on whats going to happen, usally when one is wrong they all are.
 
I use weatherbug.

I have an awesome suggestion for Dwayne when he's in the mood for a new add on mod for his site.

How about a forecast program that uploads to the site so everytime we sign on it'll show our local weather forecast automatically.

I dont necessarily have the program for it, but I'm sure its possible.
 
I have a sure fire way to tell but I would not give it to my worst enemy, My lower back and knees hurt like hell 2 days before a rain/snow storm or a atmospheric pressure change.
 
This is a link for Intellicast. The radar you will see is my area. Just click
on the Intellicast home link at the top left of the page and set it up for your
locale. I like it because it show the counties on the map. That is great for
knowing exactly where a storm is and when it will get there.

http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPag...agery&product=RadarLoop&prodnav=none&pid=none

Weatherbug is great too. I like it because I surf on the internet quite a bit
and if there is a weather alert, it starts chirping and you can click the icon
in your system tray to go see the alert. Google it and your on your way.
 
Forecast-wise, a few days out... hard to say. Try a few different sources, and see who's the most accurate. I'm not scheduling anything important by the weather, so I just use weather.com's 10-day forecast, and keep in mind that anything past 2 or 3 days is pretty much speculation. :)

For radar, it's hard to beat intellicast. It's aviation-grade radar, although "unofficial", since it's distributed via the web. Their radar comes from the very same "official" source that I look at before departure to figure out how we're gonna get around whatever's out there. The crappy radar in the RJ, well, that's another story entirely... :rolleyes:
 
I use the regular TV station forecast, seems to work fine. Weather.com seems to just use an automated system, so I've stopped using it since.
 
I generally use www.noaa.gov its updated constantly and you can actually watch the weather over your area.

For anyone that has the GPS location for you house you can setup GPS so it will track weather directly over you! its pretty cool!
 
Beercan31 said:
I have a sure fire way to tell but I would not give it to my worst enemy, My lower back and knees hurt like hell 2 days before a rain/snow storm or a atmospheric pressure change.
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I'd put my money on someones bad back, knee, what ever...over any doppler.
I've found injured joints to be quite accurate.

Even my wifes doctor told her after she broke her ankle that it would bother her with bad weather.

"J"
 
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