Weather is big business. Farmers want to know when is the best time to plant (or harvest). Event organizers want to know if a thunderstorm might come up during an open-air concert. And the rest of us want to know about their daily commute and plans for the weekend barbeque.
During a chat not long ago in the #Soylent channel of SoylentNews' IRC server, I discovered there are likely others who have an interest in all things weather-related.
I thought it might be interesting to see what weather resources my fellow Soylentils use. Not just for forecasting, but for getting current conditions, and while we are at it, let's include space weather forecasts, too. Note: I live in the USA and my primary browser is Pale Moon; please submit comments with other resources!
Many of the sites require some Javascript, but I have had success using NoScript and selectively enabling from 1 to 4 domains to get things to work.
My favorite going-down-the-rabbit-hole site is at nullschool.net -- click on the word "earth" to bring up (and hide) a menu of features and presentations you can choose. Check out ocean currents and temps, surface winds and temps, etc. See their about page for a more detailed summary of the options.
(Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Saturday July 22 2017, @10:13AM
Seems all these tips presumes there's an internet connection. It may be worthwhile to look into Specific Area Message Encoding [wikipedia.org] (SAME) used to digitally transmit messages for the Emergency Alert System (EAS), NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) in the USA and Weatheradio Canada in Canada.
The system uses seven specific channels within the frequency range of 162.40 - 162.55 MHz encoded with FSK using 1/mark=2083 .33 Hz 0/space=1562.50 Hz
If some severe weather ruffles your neighborhood it's not sure that internet or electricity keeps working..