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At the time of this writing, the National Weather Service's National Hurricane Center reports Eye of category 5 Dorian moving little while over Grand Bahama island. That page also contains several other views and forecasts of the storm.
Though it no longer looks like Florida will get a "direct hit", the storm's currently-predicted run up the US Atlantic coast promises storm surges, very heavy rain with potential flooding, and of course high winds.
For those who lie in the path of this beast, please accept my personal best wishes for you and your loved ones making it through safely.
What sites have you found to be the most informative, timely, and useful? Special credit for those which are minimally sensationalistic. Any webcams to recommend? How are things in your area? What preparations are you making?
(Score: 3, Informative) by sfm on Monday September 02 2019, @05:53PM (8 children)
For satellite imagery in (almost real time) try NOAA - National weather service enhanced radar
https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php/ [weather.gov]
For wind/temp/radar info, with forecasts - Darksky Forcast
https://darksky.net/forecast/ [darksky.net]
For a variety of weather related maps:
https://www.weathercentral.com/weather/us/radar/index.html [weathercentral.com]
wunderground was my original "go to" source for weather info, but they have gone
so far downhill that it isn't even worth the effort.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @06:32PM (2 children)
Or this: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-83.57,26.55,1821 [nullschool.net]
Looks like another hurricane is forming in the goof.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:02PM (1 child)
WOW, best link in a while.... Thanks...
Gordon
(Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Tuesday September 03 2019, @11:37AM
If you like that, you might like windy.com as well.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Monday September 02 2019, @06:35PM (3 children)
If you think that is bad, www.accuweather.com recently started demanding that people disable their ad blocker security to see content.
Intellicast.com was much, much better before they became weather underground. Somehow an animated GIF radar loop that looked exactly like the radar maps they used on TV just wasn't good enough, so they had to screw it all up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @07:27PM (1 child)
I'm not seeing any nag messages on accuweather. My local paper does something similar. No messages but the site just won't load. I'm sure its doing wonders for readership.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:12PM
There's still plenty of morons that don't know what an ad-blocker is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @09:41PM
Norwegian weather service yr.no is best.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 02 2019, @10:20PM
I haven't been to wunderground in a long time. I'm not sure if it's still there, but the "wundermap" was the only place I knew of to get three-hourly ECMWF forecasts and many of the ECMWF forecast products. It's the gold standard for global forecast models, but it's very hard to find free ECMWF data.
As for good weather data, I recommend weather.cod.edu [cod.edu]. Click on the "weather analysis tools" menu and you'll be able to find a lot of good data. They have satellite, radar, lots of forecast models (not the ECMWF), and a lot of other good data. The site is supported by grants and donations. The closest thing I've ever seen to an ad on that site was a vertical banner on the right side, a static image, soliciting donations for hurricane victims.
I don't consider Accuweather to be a particularly credible source of data. I don't know if they still do this, but I recall seeing forecasts out to 30-40 days in their mobile apps. The theoretical limit for forecasts with any skill is about three weeks.
As for credible reporting, the Capital Weather Gang [washingtonpost.com] is about as good as it gets.