OT: Which weather forecast site do you trust most? (Eclipse)

[makoti]

Good to know for normal use, but I'm trying to decide on Eclipse location. My plans are drive to Arkansas, do some riding in Bentonville, and catching it in NE Ar. Forecasts are not good, and I can't wait until 2 days before to decide. Thinking of bagging that and heading to Ohio, where I can get a place right on the edge of Totality. But it is Ohio. Near the lake. In April.
Any sites you trust to be right-ish a week out?

[coffeecherrypie]

I doubt you're going to do much better than the national weather service. https://www.weather.gov/.

[EB]

Use the National Weather Service website for the location you have in mind. The 7 day forecast and the textual forecast (under “Forecast Discussion”).

Here is the site for Bentonville: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...2=-94.2048&e=1

All the commercial providers get their data and models from the NWS and none provide more useful forecasts IMO. Notably they will usually provide a more honest margin of error.

The Apple weather app is a good example of terrible - it seems to just spit out whatever the GFS deterministic model produced for a given day. I think Weather Underground takes a similar approach.

[Veloo]

Not a forecast but this supposedly gives real time. Click on the clouds button.

https://www.ventusky.com/

[benb]

I like being able to drill into individual weather stations on wunderground.com.

Overall a good site but their app got crapified since IBM bought the site. (Not even sure they still own it but whatever)

I often look at several weather websites. But a lot of my use is just looking at the real time conditions before I go for a ride.

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by coffeecherrypie

I doubt you're going to do much better than the national weather service. https://www.weather.gov/.

Originally Posted by Veloo

https://www.ventusky.com/

Originally Posted by benb

I like being able to drill into individual weather stations on wunderground.com.

As someone who was often tasked with making the weather call for a large group ride 12 weeks a year for over a dozen years, I got accustomed to consulting multiple sites and trying to figure out whether there was any consensus. So to this day I never trust just one forecast.

I'm a fan of the National Weather Service, Ventusky, and Wunderground, but also Windy.com, Weather.com, and USAirnet.com

...and if I'm planning a bike ride, I'll often consult all six!

[makoti]

I came across this one, which gives data from 4 different models.

https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclip...&r=us_state_oh

[merckx]

NWS
Judah Cohen
Tim Kelley

[flying]

These two I check daily

www.windy.com

I like this one best for seeing what is going on with rain,clouds & wind speed & direction

www.weather.com I just use as confirmation

[dgauthier]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

(...) I got accustomed to consulting multiple sites and trying to figure out whether there was any consensus. (...)

Great advice.

I just recently discovered Weather Underground. The "10-day" tab provides a graph of cloud cover, and much more:

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/los-angeles

[Erikg]

Great thread. I really liked Dark Sky before Apple purchased. Still trying to find a replacement that shows local up to minute rain, and detailed forecast information.

[buddybikes]

Come up to New England, the one day it appears we have totally sunny weather.

[dcama5]

Originally Posted by Erikg

Great thread. I really liked Dark Sky before Apple purchased. Still trying to find a replacement that shows local up to minute rain, and detailed forecast information.

Me too - I used Dark Sky regularly. I now use Ventusky. As mentioned in this thread by others, it works well.

https://www.ventusky.com/

[Likes2ridefar]

Originally Posted by Erikg

Great thread. I really liked Dark Sky before Apple purchased. Still trying to find a replacement that shows local up to minute rain, and detailed forecast information.

Similar. I switched to carrot and like it even better.

[Nomadmax]

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