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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!
- Broadcast media - Local radio / TV station broadcasts.
- The Weather Channel - Cable TV weather channel
- http://www.accuweather.com/ - online weather forecast
- http://www.intellicast.com/ - online weather forecast
- ForecastFox -- an addon for Firefox, it gets a localized report from AccuWeather and displays it in a toolbar in FireFox (original, FF v28+) browser.
- http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/RadarLoop/usa_None_anim.gif - Radar Loop for entire USA.
- https://earth.nullschool.net/ - earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
- http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php - A worldwide, real time, community collaborative lightning location network.
- http://www.weather.gov/ US National Weather Service.
- http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index - Planetary k-index -- likelihood of geomagnetic storms (aurora).
- http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/aurora-forecast-northern-hemisphere.jpg - visual prediction of aurora in northern hemisphere or southern hemisphere
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:55AM (4 children)
The headline implies a scientific interest in meteorology, but all you really want is for everyone to dump their weather bookmarks into the comments.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:09AM (1 child)
Change the headline, and I'm going to bitch at you for revisionism. Any way you cut the cheese, SoylentNews is shit.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:28AM
NiggerNews is one nigger's shitty news blog where his nigger friends come to post comments and take a dump in the begging jar. But the nigger had to go and form a pubic interest corporation to legitimize his shitty operation. Just like a yard nigger who sneaks into the house.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday July 22 2017, @03:23AM
I apologize for the misleading headline. I plead rushing to get a story submitted before having to head out for the evening. Headline has been updated.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday July 22 2017, @04:55AM
There's a really easy way for anyone to answer this question for themselves. Take various favourite weather info sources and, for a two week period, track how accurate their predictions are. At the end of two weeks, go with the one that's got the best track record in getting it right.
When I did this some years ago, it was Weather Underground. Actually several were pretty close, but WU displayed the info in what I thought was the most useful format. The least accurate was our national weather service. Which was kinda sad that some outfit on the other side of the planet was better at predicting our weather than the local weather service.