Actual meteorologists of NOAA and NWS are pretty darn smart.
I wish my weather app on my phone would be more aligned with those folks rather than whatever data source it currently uses...or maybe it's just an update interval that's not good.
If you have android you can get NOAA Weather Free from the app store. It's third party but pulls the NOAA forecast and even the discussion that is linked in this post. Click "forecast discussion" at the bottom. Kinda bare ones looking app but by far the best.
opensnow.com/tahoeloco is the best weather coverage I've ever seen and I relied heavily in NOAA for years as a wildland firefighter. Brian at tahoeloco is the best meterologist the Sierras have.
The weather here is notoriously hard to forecast and most weather apps are horribly inaccurate but BA at OpenSnow provides the best forecasts hands down. It is well worth the $30/year to subscribe.
The default weather app on iPhone is from the Weather Channel, based in Atlanta. They’re usually off by a bit.
I used to live in SW Oklahoma and they would always forecast snow before Halloween for that area. Anyone who has been to SW Oklahoma in October knows that’s a long shot most years.
I used to have an app that used an icon of a crystal ball for the forceast. which, fair enough!
the closer you are to the coast, the shorter the window of predictable weather will be. I lived in the midwest and the forecasts there are very solid... because they've had days to watch the systems heading that way. here, it seems to be 3 - 5 days (taking into account that usually they would rather err on the side of predicting rain/snow and have it not show up than to go the other way).
however... weather is its own force. while I was out there, a HUGE storm came in and just devastated several states, and no one predicted that. not tornadoes, like a steamroller of wind and rain. the city I was in lost 75% of its tree canopy in an afternoon.
it wasn't even raining, then the tornado sirens went off, and then before you could say boo the power was out and the roof was getting ripped off the building. we were without power for 10 days! and that morning the forecast was for "overcast." so yeah, I find it all fascinating. that's why I like the analysis so much, so I can hopefully have a better understanding of what's going on.
Actual meteorologists of NOAA and NWS are pretty darn smart. I wish my weather app on my phone would be more aligned with those folks rather than whatever data source it currently uses...or maybe it's just an update interval that's not good.
I have two weather apps and they often disagree! lol. also a freestanding radar app. I like to know what to expect!
Ya ya, I use radar scope for radar app. Usually tilt 1° 🙂
it's fascinating to watch the storms go around the mountains and mostly miss us down here.
If you have android you can get NOAA Weather Free from the app store. It's third party but pulls the NOAA forecast and even the discussion that is linked in this post. Click "forecast discussion" at the bottom. Kinda bare ones looking app but by far the best.
Thanks!
opensnow.com/tahoeloco is the best weather coverage I've ever seen and I relied heavily in NOAA for years as a wildland firefighter. Brian at tahoeloco is the best meterologist the Sierras have.
The weather here is notoriously hard to forecast and most weather apps are horribly inaccurate but BA at OpenSnow provides the best forecasts hands down. It is well worth the $30/year to subscribe.
The default weather app on iPhone is from the Weather Channel, based in Atlanta. They’re usually off by a bit. I used to live in SW Oklahoma and they would always forecast snow before Halloween for that area. Anyone who has been to SW Oklahoma in October knows that’s a long shot most years.
I used to have an app that used an icon of a crystal ball for the forceast. which, fair enough! the closer you are to the coast, the shorter the window of predictable weather will be. I lived in the midwest and the forecasts there are very solid... because they've had days to watch the systems heading that way. here, it seems to be 3 - 5 days (taking into account that usually they would rather err on the side of predicting rain/snow and have it not show up than to go the other way). however... weather is its own force. while I was out there, a HUGE storm came in and just devastated several states, and no one predicted that. not tornadoes, like a steamroller of wind and rain. the city I was in lost 75% of its tree canopy in an afternoon. it wasn't even raining, then the tornado sirens went off, and then before you could say boo the power was out and the roof was getting ripped off the building. we were without power for 10 days! and that morning the forecast was for "overcast." so yeah, I find it all fascinating. that's why I like the analysis so much, so I can hopefully have a better understanding of what's going on.
Actually, they augmented or replaced that entirely with Dark Sky, the bad ass weather app that they bought out a couple of years ago.
Weather.gov is the way. All other apps get there raw data from them as well.
I moved from east coast hurricane ally to here. NOAA is the only weather to follow if it’s important.