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Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website?
What do you use for looking up weather? All the top results generally have tons of advertisements, or do not provide a weather map, or are a horrible user interface.
- GlenTheMachine 8y agoForecast.io
- Nicksil 8y agohttps://weather.gov https://weather.gov - Primary source https://windy.com https://windy.com - Neat visualizations https://darksky.net https://darksky.net - Secondary/Quick-glance source
- akulbe 8y agoAnother vote for https://darksky.net https://darksky.net
- trevyn 8y agoGoogle: <place> weather
- 8_hours_ago 8y agohttps://weather.gov https://weather.gov I live in a coastal area with highly localized weather, and weather.gov gives me by far the best forecast. Sites which only have city-level granularity don't work well when the temperature can be 5-10F different less than a mile away.
- guben20 8y agoweather-util[1] for text forecasts #IMAGEVIEWER a static url for radar i.e. [2] weather.gov/"zipcode" for anything needing greater detail [1]http://fungi.yuggoth.org/weather/ http://fungi.yuggoth.org/weather/ [2]https://radar.weather.gov/lite/N0R/BGM_loop.gif https://radar.weather.gov/lite/N0R/BGM_loop.gif Out of the scope of the question, my local TV news station gives the most accurate forecast of any other source. Also handy are top of hour terrestrial radio updates and NOAA Weather Radio.
- arwineap 8y agowindy.com Provides the means for me to look for myself :)
- bprosnitz 8y agoAre there any weather websites with confidence intervals?
- detaro 8y agonot quite that, but kachelmannwetter.com/weather.us has a mode where they'll show you the results from different models: https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/vorhersage/2950159-berlin/xltrend https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/vorhersage/2950159-berlin/xl... https://weather.us/forecast/5128581-new-york/xltrend https://weather.us/forecast/5128581-new-york/xltrend
- ckennelly 8y agoThey're not confidence intervals, but weather.gov's forecasts include a link to the NWS office's forecast discussion (updated every few hours). This can give you a bit of insight into forecaster uncertainty and the variation between models. To excerpt the most recent (8:14PM EDT) NYC office's discussion: "As a result, expect most precipitation to be focused mainly during the evening hours. Hi-resolution models have been suggesting that the overnight hours could be mainly if not entirely dry. This is due to 850 hPa warm front lifting to the north by around 6z and a dry slot moving in from the SW (DC/PHI area). For now, have just lowered pops to chance. If trends in the high resolution models hold, pops will need to be lowered further if not removed for the overnight hours with future updates."
- King-Aaron 8y agoWhile it doesn't count for much if you're outside of Australia, the BOM (Bureau of meteorology) is probably the best I use. http://bom.gov.au http://bom.gov.au
- beningrad 8y agoWhen it comes to planning an alpine climb, I use http://www.mountain-forecast.com http://www.mountain-forecast.com to judge what sorts of gear I might need. Super niche use-case, but it's better than anything else I've found.
- tudelo 8y agoweather.gov hourly forecast. It has a nice graph :)
- vinhnx 8y agoYr.no - also check out their iOS app https://www.yr.no/?spr=eng https://www.yr.no/?spr=eng
- JNRowe 8y agoI'm in the UK, and always use yr.no for overviews. I love the occasions when a .no site uses their heavy snow icon for what passes for a blizzard around here. And, I (ab)use the sites of local folk who have their weather stations and webcams available when I'm about to go for a bike ride.
- ebcode 8y agoI usually just go here to look at the west coast: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-epac.html http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-epac.html
- dpeck 8y ago$ curl wttr.in/atlanta Is great if you’re in the terminal.
- lingz 8y agoMet Office
- farseer 8y agohttps://www.bbc.com/weather/map https://www.bbc.com/weather/map Very intuitive and simple weather map
- anotheryou 8y agograph heavy android app: flowx
- Jeremy1026 8y agoWeather Underground[1], I love their 10-day forecast view with the graphs of temperature, precipitation chance, pressure, and winds. 1) https://wunderground.com https://wunderground.com
- Odenwaelder 8y agoNot a website, but the german DWD WarnWetter App gets its forecasts directly from the german national weather service (DWD).
- ezekg 8y agoThe UI sucks but it gives you the most info: https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php
- Lordarminius 8y agoon Linux CLI or any its cousins :$ "wttr.in/<your city>" Gives a 3 day forecast that I have found to be quite accurate
- notacoward 8y agoI like Weather Underground for most things. The 10-day graph presents information in a way I find useful and easy to understand. However, for the weather right now I like AccuWeather's MinuteCast. It's eerily accurate. I use them to plan my runs on variable days, and I almost never get caught in the rain if they say it's supposed to be clear. On the other hand, if it says it's going to rain in 23 minutes and I decide to wait for a bit, it practically always does rain in exactly 23 minutes. Ditto for snow in the winter. The exact amounts might be off, but the timing is usually spot on.
- bgdnpn 8y agoI just use -> https://www.google.ro/search?q=weather https://www.google.ro/search?q=weather