What is the best weather app?

lofsfire

lofsfire

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I've been watching the guys on Facebook. The only reason I got back on Facebook was due to John's passing. Seeing how no one sells on Craigslist anymore I'm sure I would have ended up back on Facebook for Market Place as well at some point...

The guys I watch for weather are:
Midwest Weather
Region Weather (NW Indiana) But the guy that does it works like John did. He lives in Ohio and calls into the radio show each morning and also has FB posts to go along with it... Sometimes he even does live Facebook with Q&A
Weatherman Chase
Storm Chaser Corey Gerken
 
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rph130

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I think my iPhone has the weather channel app installed on it, but I can't figure out how to tell. For the most part, pretty accurate and gives me what I am interested in.
 
pclark

pclark

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lofsfire said:
I've been watching the guys on Facebook. The only reason I got back on Facebook was due to John's passing. Seeing how no one sells on Craigslist anymore I'm sure I would have ended up back on Facebook for Market Place as well at some point...

The guys I watch for weather are:
Midwest Weather
Region Weather (NW Indiana) But the guy that does it works like John did. He lives in Ohio and calls into the radio show each morning and also has FB posts to go along with it... Sometimes he even does live Facebook with Q&A
Weatherman Chase
Storm Chaser Corey Gerken
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Thanks Lofsfire
 
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old abe

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rph130 said:
I think my iPhone has the weather channel app installed on it, but I can't figure out how to tell. For the most part, pretty accurate and gives me what I am interested in. rph130: your iPhone Weather Channel app should be a sky blue square, with a partly covered sun behind the cloud. And yes mine also is surprisingly pretty darn good. Also at the received rainfall amounts, and current wind conditions at each locations. My son depends on it for field spraying operations. But he uses NWS pin point graphs for predicted, wind, temp, and humidity levels. All of which are important for Irrigating, and spraying.
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CrossfireLOW

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Weather apps are not needed... see rant below.
Bookmark your point forecast from the NWS
Bookmark your preferred radar website
Go to your state's 511 page, look at road conditions and webcams
Done. For 99% of the population this covers everything you need.

If you didn't know, most data that feeds into a weather app comes from the NWS. Its just repackaged in what is made to look like proprietary information, its not.

Take a deeper dive, read the forecast discussions from the individual NWS offices. They are updated at least twice a day, more often when weather conditions warrant and give reasoning behind there choices. For a particular storm they may discuss why they favor one weather model vs another and how that affected the current forecast.

Take an even deeper dive and look at the model data itself..... https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php

A little rant...
Watch the models long enough and it will happen that one of the model runs will flash a big snowstorm 5-6 days out, within a few hours the latest update of weather apps will show an alert for that snowstorm. People will see this and get excited/worried, then the weather model naturally "loses" the snowstorm in all subsequent runs (they run 4x daily). Low and behold the weather app updates and the snowstorm alert is gone.... Golly those weather guys don't what they are talking about.... no this sort of thing has happened in weather models since they were first made. Human forecasters now this and would never forecast a snowstorm from a single model run. App developers know this and regurgitate model output as forecasts to exploit it for views/clicks....
 
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old abe

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Bravo CrossfireLOW! Perfect, you practically described my exact daily procedureal routine. The NWS forecast discussions are a very good source of info. You'll become quite good at understanding their lingo in no time. And what you don't understand, just click on it, and they will describe it for you. 95% of all US weather info is fundamentally generated by NWS, no matter who refines, and tags it. This is our NWS, we pay for it, use it. Others just refine it to fit into their format.
 
bayfly

bayfly

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I use NWS as described above. I also use the Dupage University snow forecasting models that John showed us. I think it would be really helpful if we had a thread that folks could post periodic forecasts from whatever sources that showed UP snow coming. I’m not interested in forecasts that show nothing coming, but when there is something to get excited about I think everyone on this site would be interested. I do see some of this in various threads, but a single thread to keep all the predictions would be helpful, I think.
 
dfattack

dfattack

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I started listening to max velocity on YouTube yesterday. So far he seems pretty good.

I was going to post a link but not sure if that still violates the rules here
 
dfattack

dfattack

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gary_in_neenah said:
Post away, it fits the thread and has common interest.
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Sounds good.

www.youtube.com

Max Velocity - Severe Weather Center

Max Velocity provides accurate, honest, and reliable weather information across the United States. Whenever severe weather, hurricanes, blizzards, brutal heat waves, or cold snaps occur, you know who to trust for accurate and honest weather information. Business contact: maxvelocitywx@gmail.com
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I have only listen to him for 2 days so far so can't really comment on his accuracy.
 
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Skylar

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I use the NWS out of Marquette. I also check the college of DuPage and the computer models on there. Its amazing how much they can change every 6 hours. I also follow 3 different sources on Facebook.
 
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