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Is there not a government run forecasting service where you are? In the UK the Met office is the only source of whether information I will trust. The rest is cl
by bb123 6y ago
Is there not a government run forecasting service where you are? In the UK the Met office is the only source of whether information I will trust. The rest is click bait.
- kitd 6y agoFunnily enough, that other government-run service, the BBC, no longer use the Met Office for their forecasts. They switched to Meteogroup 2 years ago.
- snickms 6y agoThe BBC is not a government-run service. It is a publicly-owned corporation.
- fhars 6y agoAfter being force by the government to use the lowest bidder: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/09/why-competition-doesnt-guarantee-accurate-winter-weather-forecasts https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/09/why-competition...
- d0gbread 6y agoYes, in the US there's weather.gov. The govt has a vested interest in settling people down (...usually) and the opposite for the media/weather so I like to bounce between both for larger storms.
- snickms 6y agoI think it highly unlikely that weather.gov is faking it's forecasts in either direction.
- cinntaile 6y agoIs this a thing in the US, that people believe they're faking weather forecasts? It sounds utterly bizarre to me?
- dylan604 6y agoDoes it also sound bizarre that there are people that believe QAnon, fraudulent elections, lizard people in gov't leadership positions, flat earth, etc. These are actual things people believe in, so of course there will be people that believe the forecast is fake as well.
- brnt 6y agoWhich sounds ridiculous as well. Many outside of the US think the place is changing for the worse, no question. There's a big problem when large contingents of people believe this stuff, no?
- dylan604 6y agoOf course it's a problem. However, thinking that people won't believe in it is also a problem. It's kind of like rule 37 of the internet, if you can think it, it exists on the internet. with nutters, whatever the looniest thing you can come up with that you feel nobody would actually take you serious, there will be people that will grab on to it like it is truth incarnate.
- danaliv 6y agoI’m a professional pilot. I put my life in the hands of the National Weather Service. They are reliable, and consummate professionals.
- ReactiveJelly 6y agoweather.gov is nice - It shows the highs, lows, and precipitation for the next few days. The hourly temperature graphs also exist. And no ads, because our taxes pay for it. I'm not sure why anyone uses any other website at all. Maybe it's because of the conspiracy to privatize forecasting and extract rent from it.
- IggleSniggle 6y agoWow. First I’ve heard of it, and now I won’t be using anything else.
- nkurz 6y ago> I'm not sure why anyone uses any other website at all. I'm in the US, and use both http://weather.gov http://weather.gov and http://windy.com http://windy.com. I think they complement each other. weather.gov is best for the "forecast discussion" page, which often gives backstory on which parts of the forecast are certain and which are speculative. windy.com gives multiple forecasts from different agencies, which also helps calibrate confidence. They also have some great visuals, and a very good interface.