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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:49AM (4 children)
You can search your weather by GPS coordinates with weather.gov. It's all I use anymore.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-117.11892114257815&lat=32.801915961930064 [weather.gov]
Make sure to click the Hourly Weather Forecast image on the right side of the page.
Look at all the FA-class coverage of hurricanes at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics#Geology.2C_geophysics_and_meteorology [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:58AM (1 child)
Wot? No Weather Underground? Or are they dead, bought out by the Weather Corporation?
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:39AM
Weather Underground was bought by weather.com but not dead yet.
But I can't believe space weather is mentioned in the article but spaceweather.com isn't linked.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:46AM
http://totallaughriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/MayanWeatherForecast.jpg [totallaughriot.com]
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday July 22 2017, @05:37AM
Ventusky.com
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