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https://www.windy.com/-Rain-accumulation-rainAccu?rainAccu,36.049,-92.109,5 https://www.windy.com/-Rain-accumulation-rainAccu?rainAccu,3... Click on "Next 10 D

https://www.windy.com/-Rain-accumulation-rainAccu?rainAccu,36.049,-92.109,5 https://www.windy.com/-Rain-accumulation-rainAccu?rainAccu,3... Click on "Next 10 Days" near the bottom. Windy users know about this stuff way farther in advance.

joshcrews 5y ago
Another endorsement of Windy. In 2017 Windy knew that Hurricane Harvey was going to stall out over SE Texas days in advance.
- cos2pi 5y ago
  Windy doesn’t make forecasts, rather it visualizes output from forecast models.
  - dghlsakjg 5y ago
    Yup. You can even choose different models for it to visualize!
mastax 5y ago
"People who look at forecast maps" know about this stuff way further in advance, surely. That said, Windy is very good.
- dylan604 5y ago
  "People who look at forecast maps" are way more confused about the weather actually happening than those that don't. FTFY ;-) My local forecasts have predicted rain for multiple days in a row, and then those days arrive to sunny skies. The same day forecasts get updated to reflect the lack of rain, and then mid-to-late afternoon storms after zero prediction of them. This summer has been a bad luck streak for forecasters.
- jeffbee 5y ago
  Windy makes a compelling visualization of data that is often totally wrong and misleading. Their presentation of PM2.5 concentrations in California right now is very pretty and also off by about an order of magnitude versus actual sensor readings. I will continue to prefer the much uglier but correct presentations from NOAA themselves, or the incredibly slow but rich and accurate data from wunderground.
aeroman 5y ago
Windy is an excellent graphical interface, but as I understand it, this forecast is a re-packaging of the ECMWF one (https://apps.ecmwf.int/webapps/opencharts https://apps.ecmwf.int/webapps/opencharts). The GFS forecast (from the National Weather Service) also gets a similar track for Ida.
nolaspring 5y ago
To be fair, I check a number of different forecast sites (including Windy) and follow a lot of different weather bloggers but no one knew this storm was a thing until a few days ago. And all of the models had it as a Cat 2 until yesterday.
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baq 5y ago
This isn’t the best advice, unfortunately. The best advice is to follow https://www.nhc.noaa.gov https://www.nhc.noaa.gov and your local NWS. Model forecasts are surprisingly unreliable and each model has its own biases, which is why the job of weather forecaster still isn’t automated. NHC has arguably the best tropical system forecasters in the world and their products are publicly accessible for all. Follow them first and foremost.

joshcrews 5y ago

Another endorsement of Windy. In 2017 Windy knew that Hurricane Harvey was going to stall out over SE Texas days in advance.

cos2pi 5y ago
Windy doesn’t make forecasts, rather it visualizes output from forecast models.
- dghlsakjg 5y ago
  Yup. You can even choose different models for it to visualize!

mastax 5y ago

"People who look at forecast maps" know about this stuff way further in advance, surely. That said, Windy is very good.

dylan604 5y ago
"People who look at forecast maps" are way more confused about the weather actually happening than those that don't. FTFY ;-) My local forecasts have predicted rain for multiple days in a row, and then those days arrive to sunny skies. The same day forecasts get updated to reflect the lack of rain, and then mid-to-late afternoon storms after zero prediction of them. This summer has been a bad luck streak for forecasters.
jeffbee 5y ago
Windy makes a compelling visualization of data that is often totally wrong and misleading. Their presentation of PM2.5 concentrations in California right now is very pretty and also off by about an order of magnitude versus actual sensor readings. I will continue to prefer the much uglier but correct presentations from NOAA themselves, or the incredibly slow but rich and accurate data from wunderground.

aeroman 5y ago

Windy is an excellent graphical interface, but as I understand it, this forecast is a re-packaging of the ECMWF one (https://apps.ecmwf.int/webapps/opencharts https://apps.ecmwf.int/webapps/opencharts). The GFS forecast (from the National Weather Service) also gets a similar track for Ida.

nolaspring 5y ago

To be fair, I check a number of different forecast sites (including Windy) and follow a lot of different weather bloggers but no one knew this storm was a thing until a few days ago. And all of the models had it as a Cat 2 until yesterday.

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baq 5y ago

This isn’t the best advice, unfortunately. The best advice is to follow https://www.nhc.noaa.gov https://www.nhc.noaa.gov and your local NWS. Model forecasts are surprisingly unreliable and each model has its own biases, which is why the job of weather forecaster still isn’t automated. NHC has arguably the best tropical system forecasters in the world and their products are publicly accessible for all. Follow them first and foremost.