Where do you get your weather info?

I use weather.com and accuweather.com, and often compare their local forecasts for accuracy. However, they both missed it Saturday, April 14! This is what I got instead:~(

I said Oh My Aching Joints----but then I remembered, I have been cleaning out flower beds-so it may be that instead of the weather.
This is a fun one, no right or wrong
I like these kind of things to vote on.
Sandra

I find Weather Underground extremely reliable. I use it for the forecast for my morning runs and use the weekly forecast to decide what to do in the garden.

I check newschannel5.com

Jason

I use www.weather.com a lot, but mostly I just turn to the local t.v. station for weather reports!

I'm a meteorologist--I do my own forecasts! Looking out the window helps too :-)

I use the National Weather Bureau on line for weather in the US. The Weather Channel's forecast for my area was almost always dry and sunny. That is right most of the time, but I like to know when other storms are coming.
For foreign travel I use The Weather Underground which covers most countries in the world quite well.
For national weather on the weather channel or CNN, the weather person always stands in front of my state, New Mexico, so TV weather is worthless except local channels and that means you have to turn on the TV when they are on. I much prefer to check the Internet morning and night and more often if there is a storm headed for us.

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Marilyn,
Thank you for the link to NOAA Weather. Best account anywhere. Probably where the tv weather readers get the information. Again another jewel found on DG.

Weather Underground and a weather widget.

I listen to the radio, while preparing for work. This way, if there's real bad weather, I know if the schools are closing too. My kids jump online for all that, they are good with the web, I'm still trying to catch up.
They say that weatherbug.com is good.........................

Wunderground.com, definitely.

Hate The Weather Channel--whenever I hear thunder, I switch on The Weather Channel and instead of being able to see if the storm is headed this way they're doing something on a 1901 mudslide in Timbuctoo. I wish they'd keep politics and docudrama out of the weather too.

I chose other because I use the local TV stations, radio stations and weatherchannel.com

First I see the forcast on the KENS 5 newscast (I believe the morning guy more often than the evening guy!). Sometimes I will check Weatherbug. If I'm really in doubt, I step outside, but go to two of the local news websites to check the radar.

My SBC homepage has it. Or I just look outside for the days estimation.

noaa.com - I agree with flyboy above - very accurate.

I like www.georgiaweather.net. Gives more than just weather including soil temps.

What's the correct answer? I want to know if I got it right.

I voted the weather channel although for really accurate local weather I step outside and look up.

sfgate.com but I really should save up for a good remote digital weather station. We have so many microclimates here that general weather forecasts aren't as useful for gardening. The wind was really whipping here today. Blew my seedling trays right off the semi-sheltered porch.

Embarassing but I pretty much just get it by looking outside or someone else telling me about the future forecasts. Sometimes I catch the little weather "tease" between programs on tv trying to entice you to stay tuned for local news but not because I'm actually looking for a weather report:LOL:

We bought a weather station that updates from Colorado and that works very well. We can't get a local newspaper and there is no local radio or TV serving us. I also check the website for NOAA weather for our location and that is really good. Of course, looking out the window and across the valley gives us a pretty good guess about the immediate storms, too

I watch our local tv station then I always say "I'll believe it when I see it". :)

I check the Weather Channel, they broadcast our local temps etc. "on the 8s" regardless what they are showing, so I can skip the programming and just check the forecase. In the morning, I stick my head out the door. Golf and gardening require at the minimum, somewhat dry air, and not too much wind. I will confess to having golfed and gardened both, in downpours.

weather.com for daily forecasts (I have their desk top feature)

noaa.gov when there's storm activity - their "discussions" section is particularly helpful and interesting

I have responded with saying the internet....but we, too, use noaa.gov for hurricane season...

I just look out the window. That's much more accurate than the daily newspaper or the evening news.

NOAA!!! All the weather without all the hype.

Harper

Spidra,
farmers pay for some real updated infor that they get on the internet several times a day....if it is important to you, look in to a report that you can subscribe to on a yearly basis.

With remarkable 95% accuracy, I look out the window. With 100% accuracy, I can tell rain by the number of dog tracks on the kitchen floor.

I like wunderground.com. They keep adding stuff to make it interesting.

Local weather channel on enternet. Also from my wife who watches several TV weather channels and feels her information is more realistic than mine! Sometimes, I even listen to my joints and muscles.

NOAA is our favorite. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast When I have time, I can also plug in our children's ZIP codes around the country, and get their weather situation too.

I use Weatherunderground as my primary weather source. They include the detailed discussion and have links to everything else I need (which is a lot during the June - November timeframe- I live on the coast in FL!). I also like the new BETA radar available from TWC.

husband. I have no idea where he gets it - I think he makes it up - his reports are usually quite tautological: "Its raining", "Yes". Although he slips in something sometimes - like cloud names, or what planet you can see, or my favourite "feels very stable", so its terribly convincing. But it seems to work for me. And after 30 years, I would definately miss his weathering.

1) AM Newsradio, 2) my weather station 3) my experience; If I don't like what the weather is going to be, then I decide what I'm going to do about it... lol.

Just looked out the window, yes it is raining.

LOL Dyson.

Weather Underground...I can get to it from any computer and it has a mobile version that is easy to access on my cell phone.

I voted 'Other' - only one I never use is the Farmer's Almanac. My left foot is the best tho - I know it's going to rain at least a day ahead, sometimes two days. grrrr!