I use my phone for current temps and all, but for the forecast I follow a couple local guys who run a weather page on Facebook for my immediate area. They've been incredibly accurate over the last couple years when everyone else has been wrong.
@JonT I use wunderground as my first option too. Check out https://weatherspark.com/ too. A friend recently introduced me to the site. It has some pretty cool features, especially under 'Dashboard.'
@2many2no One of the nice things about Facebook has been learning every city says this. Whereabouts are you? I visited Lubbock a couple of years ago and had a great time.
@editorkid We live in the Lubbock area. A while back, we walked out of Sam's into a sunny parking lot, not knowing there was a haboob right behind the buidling. It took a lot less than a minute to change!
@2many2no I live in REALLY West Texas (corner of New and Old Mexico). I went to the movies one sunny day in April 25 years ago wearing shorts and a T-shirt as it was in the low 80s. Came out to several inches of snow on the ground. The temperature had dropped 50 degrees in an hour. Just this spring I walked out to get in my car and the sun was shining, I heard a roaring noise and looked back down the street and there was a wall of rain rushing at me. It looked like a sky-high tidal wave, from bone dry to deluge in a flat glistening grey wall. It overtook me in the few seconds it took me to get in the car I was completely drenched. We are at over 3700ft elevation in a very dry region so there isn't a lot of atmosphere to slow down weather changes.
@JonT It's funny you say that. They filmed part of Day After Tomorrow here. The day they decided to film Americans fleeing over the Rio Grande into Mexico to escape apocalyptic weather, we had a sandstorm blow in off the desert floor. In an interview later the production staff said they were really happy because they'd budgeted half a million dollars for weather effects for that scene, but we provided them with all the end-of-the-world weather they needed for free.
In South Florida, the weather rarely varies. (It will rain 3-5 PM every day during the rainy season and only rarely during the winter months) The only thing I check for is storms and hurricanes. Those we can find out about days in advance. (No worries about snow or tornadoes.)
I work outside so I'll check the temperatures on my phone to see if it's going to be hot or cold today (or cold early and then hot later). Beyond that, I wait and see what happens.
@jsh139 I have the saved locations, but I like the 'my location' feature, so I get updates when I'm out of the house. Or I would, if it recognized 'my location' when I was at home!
I used to go out and check but now that I'm doing life plus a day in the slammer I'll use these two niffty-galiffty weather radios I got from my good like-minded folks a Meh.com.
Mostly I look out the window to see if it is rainy, windy, cloudy, etc. Where I live on the high desert mesa, if the sun is shining and it isn't windy, it is pretty much warm in December and January and hot the rest of the time.
Does anyone have a weather station? I'm getting one for Christmas--it has software and can connect to a phone app to report local conditions. It won't predict the weather, just track current stuff, like rainfall.
Back in the Good Old Days, I had a Chumby that rotated through my zip code's Yahoo Weather temperature, NOAA weather radar, and a webcam in downtown Chicago so I could see how hazy it was.
What means "weather"?
I use my phone for current temps and all, but for the forecast I follow a couple local guys who run a weather page on Facebook for my immediate area. They've been incredibly accurate over the last couple years when everyone else has been wrong.
@PurplePawprints Same here. There's a guy on Facebook called Nevada County Weather who does an awesome job for our area.
Usually use my phone but if I need more in depth info or further out forcasts I head to wunderground.com. Best weather site I've found.
@JonT there is a Wunderground app. I find it more accurate than the other apps, sites, and weather channels, at least for where I live.
@JonT I use wunderground as my first option too. Check out https://weatherspark.com/ too. A friend recently introduced me to the site. It has some pretty cool features, especially under 'Dashboard.'
@JonT My weather station is on wunderground.com.
@JonT Another great site is Intellicast. Excellent maps and features
Could you please rephrase the question?
@Ignorant What? You and the weather don't get together and do check on?
I live near Kalamazoo, MI. No one relies on weather reports here.
In West Texas if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute.
@2many2no One of the nice things about Facebook has been learning every city says this. Whereabouts are you? I visited Lubbock a couple of years ago and had a great time.
@editorkid We live in the Lubbock area. A while back, we walked out of Sam's into a sunny parking lot, not knowing there was a haboob right behind the buidling. It took a lot less than a minute to change!
@2many2no I learned a new word today, thanks!
@2many2no I live in REALLY West Texas (corner of New and Old Mexico). I went to the movies one sunny day in April 25 years ago wearing shorts and a T-shirt as it was in the low 80s. Came out to several inches of snow on the ground. The temperature had dropped 50 degrees in an hour. Just this spring I walked out to get in my car and the sun was shining, I heard a roaring noise and looked back down the street and there was a wall of rain rushing at me. It looked like a sky-high tidal wave, from bone dry to deluge in a flat glistening grey wall. It overtook me in the few seconds it took me to get in the car I was completely drenched. We are at over 3700ft elevation in a very dry region so there isn't a lot of atmosphere to slow down weather changes.
@moondrake that sounds apocalyptic (which explains all of the signs I saw driving through West Texas), you should probably get out of there.
@JonT It's funny you say that. They filmed part of Day After Tomorrow here. The day they decided to film Americans fleeing over the Rio Grande into Mexico to escape apocalyptic weather, we had a sandstorm blow in off the desert floor. In an interview later the production staff said they were really happy because they'd budgeted half a million dollars for weather effects for that scene, but we provided them with all the end-of-the-world weather they needed for free.
Live in SoCal and the weather hardly changes more than 10 degrees in either direction.
In South Florida, the weather rarely varies. (It will rain 3-5 PM every day during the rainy season and only rarely during the winter months) The only thing I check for is storms and hurricanes. Those we can find out about days in advance. (No worries about snow or tornadoes.)
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I work outside so I'll check the temperatures on my phone to see if it's going to be hot or cold today (or cold early and then hot later). Beyond that, I wait and see what happens.
My phone doesn't have a weather app, so I just use a website or the tv.
@SirPseudo Before I got a smartphone, I would use Google's SMS service to check the weather if need be. Something like 'weather [zip code]' to GOOGL.
I find the WeatherBug app more than sufficient. Yahoo makes a nice weather app, too.
@jsh139 I have WeatherBug and it's nice, but it persists in thinking I'm in a town 20 miles north. Annoying.
@Mavyn Do you use the GPS to determine your location? I just typed my zip code in and saved the location that way. Much easier.
@jsh139 I have the saved locations, but I like the 'my location' feature, so I get updates when I'm out of the house. Or I would, if it recognized 'my location' when I was at home!
I used to go out and check but now that I'm doing life plus a day in the slammer I'll use these two niffty-galiffty weather radios I got from my good like-minded folks a Meh.com.
Mostly I look out the window to see if it is rainy, windy, cloudy, etc. Where I live on the high desert mesa, if the sun is shining and it isn't windy, it is pretty much warm in December and January and hot the rest of the time.
Dark Sky app is great payware app. I use it for short term. Forecast.io and Forecast.io/lines is their free webpage.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.frakbot.FWeather&hl=en
My phone runs on iOS, but my house... wait for it... HAS WINDOWS
@matthew had to scroll up and make sure I wasn't in a Komedy Kornhole thread.
@Ignorant @matthew
Does anyone have a weather station? I'm getting one for Christmas--it has software and can connect to a phone app to report local conditions. It won't predict the weather, just track current stuff, like rainfall.
@Mavyn I do. weather.lisaviolet.com
@lisaviolet Neat. Looks like yer kitty thinks 55 is cold.
@mehjohnson 55 is cold.
@lisaviolet For pussies. JK. My pup does that curl at 65 and I put plushie blanket on her. A manly one.
My Netatmo weather gizmo
I use the AccuWeather app on my phone. Definitely worth checking out.
Back in the Good Old Days, I had a Chumby that rotated through my zip code's Yahoo Weather temperature, NOAA weather radar, and a webcam in downtown Chicago so I could see how hazy it was.
(gets a little verklempt)
Now I look out the window.
@editorkid I had to wiki a product name like that. Sounds fairly cool tho.
I stick my face out of my door. Right now, it will either be cold or freezing and sometimes snowing.
@The_Baron But gaww, that door is so much further than my phone button.
ForecastFox extension in my browser.