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Your valued opinions on which sites / phone apps you use / go to for your most accurate weather / wind forecasts would be appreciated.
I've bounce back and forth between the Weather channel app and Wunderground app, and I honestly confuse myself in which one I believe is the most accurate.
Thanks in advance for your opinions!
I use the weather channel app and that's it. All of 'em lie tho. :yikes
Stu, I use National Weather Service and it has been about as close to being accurate as any of the rest I look at. What I like the most is it shows wind speed by the hour and it will show the gusts also. Here is a link for Quincy that I use for Talquin. Access Denied
If you like this site just navigate around and save the locations you want...Pulls up fast and easy.
It says Access Denied but the link still pulls up. And like jimp, I use the Weather Channel app on my phone. I like the radar!!
Windfinder is another one with a android google app.....wind direction,gust,tides,hourly, etc...
Walk outside and look up! Thats all I trust 100%. But usually check accuweather and seems fairly close.
Intellicast App for iPhone. If I'm just on computer on the net I use accuweather.com
Accuweather widget on my phone is alright. Pretty close on the wind.
Weather.com has been good to me for a long time. All the info I can absorb and as already said----THEY LIE!!
Weather Underground app. I need accurate weather for work and fishing/hunting. Weather underground has by far been the most accurate!
I use the Weather Underground App and it’s been pretty accurate over the years. Has clear hour by hour details
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I wish I could take screenshots of phone. Yesterday checked long range forecast on 3 different apps for camping next week and got 3 different forecasts. I think accuweather comes closest for me on days out. Storm radar is fantastic on water checking current and predicted paths of squalls
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Mesonet.org works great for Oklahoma.
They lie also!
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I’m with you REDGE, I think they’re paid to lie.
I like Ventusky app
Same here. Usually pretty spot on for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Choppus
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This...and understanding of how fronts affect the wind. I've used Weather Channel, Windfinder and Sailflow and find none of them to be accurate more than a few hours in advance, unless it's right before or after a front. I've not found anywhere than can predict the timing of fronts, even 12-24 hours out.Quote:
Originally Posted by huntinslabs
Tough question Stu, they all have good and sometimes bad reporting.I've tried several and can not pick one I really have confidence in.
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Here is the only one that I have found to go by it’s never wrong
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Seriously though I usually look as the forecast and the radar and make my own judgment but I miss it too I have gotten wet more times this year than ever! Lol
1Weather app Iphone and Andriod. Gives wind and rain and temp by the hour a few days in advance. Also extended forcast and I can find a report for all the lakes I fish up here in NE Fl
Wunderground, windfinder, and weatherbug. Don't trust any of em.
Weather bug and Accuweather are decent.
''lie''? ridiculous. both accuweather and weatherunderground are both very good and quite trustworthy. people who don't trust ''weathermen'' don't understand meteorology, nor science, often are **** unable to understand global warming as well. i have studied weather my entire life, including my first two years in college before switching to medicine. i go to accuweather to assess the weather before every fishing outing, esp. the radar.
Well then....lol Didn't mean to strike a nerve there feller. :Rofl:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by catfish45
Been a few years now since I started following these apps............... I also now understand nothing wind wise is set in stone, but mostly accurate. As far a weather forecast and radar etc. more than a few have shown me as mostly reliable. Running a tin boat............ wind is my biggest concern.
I asked this question on Alabama forum. Best answer I heard was any of the national apps paired with a local weather app for comparison and immediate weather threats. And Al Gore invented global warming. I read that on the internet.
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Originally Posted by catchNgrease
Well don't forget, he invented that also.Quote:
Originally Posted by sunshine
Just got myradar from the app store. Looks good
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Weatherman got me again this weekend.
Windfinder, weatherbug, and Wunderground agreed that the wind would lie down to <10mph Saturday afternoon and be "light and variable" by 10pm Saturday night.
Had a buddy in town from down South so I thought I'd show him some crappies then some salt the next day. Round the bend to the lake and all you can see is whitecaps. Oh well. We put in and go get knocked around for a couple hours and catch a bakers dozen fish, with 8 in the box.
Checked the weather again, forecast was even prettier! Tampa bay weather was supposed to be gorgeous Sunday so I planned a "Blast and Cast," early morning duck hunt followed up by some flats fishing.
We get to the boat launch at 5:15am and notice a rather stiff 12-15mph North wind. Thought maybe it was just the breeze that kicks up around daylight/break sometimes. Nope, come around the corner into an angry washing machine like Tampa bay with 2ft whitecaps and chop. I was able to make 5mph across the bay, while taking water over the bow occasionally, took me until well after daylight to get to where I wanted to be. Kicked some decoys out and settled in.
Birds started flying and we managed to whack a few mergansers while we watched the outgoing tide and north wind suck the water out of the bay. Called it about 830 when the birds had largely rafted up and weren't flying much. Wind was still honking. Eased back around the back side of a bridge to hide from the pounding we were taking and started fishing. Wind finally died off about 11am, and not long after we finished our speckled trout limit and pointed the boat back across the now calm bay to head home.
While radar is very beneficial for rain forecasts, I just haven't found a consistently reliable predictor of wind speeds. I spent 6 years working offshore in the Gulf and my experience has taught me to take NOAAs wind and wave predictions and double them, if that's too rough for your liking, then stay home or fish protected waters.
I have been using Intellicast but the website says they are merging into Weather Underground. I have not found one that you could trust the wind on.
weather underground and accuweather are very trustworthy. i studied weather my whole life, including my first two years in college as a meteorology major before switching to the medical field. i use accuweather forecasts and their radar every time before i launch.
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Intellicast - Weather Active Map
this is what i use