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Survey: How Do You Get Your Weather On-line?

2007-06-06surge_forecast.jpgWeather is one of those things that affects all of us (except if you're our friend Dave, who specifically bought a condo on the Skyway in Minneapolis so he doesn't need to go outside between home and work).

On-line sites can also educate you on weather around the world, as is the case for us with hurricane Gonu hitting Oman and Iran right now; this is the first time in over 60 years they've had a hurricane in that area. Thankfully, it's been downgraded significantly as it approached land, from a category 5 to category 1. We want to know...

 
 

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The Forecastfox extension uses Accuweather, so that's basically what I'm stuck using. Forecastfox is awfully convenient, though.

posted by moiety on June 6th 2007 at 10:26am
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I just use my OS X weather widget - it gets its data from accuweather.com, apparently.

posted by melanie on June 6th 2007 at 10:28am
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Ooh, forgot about accuweather when making my list...thanks for the reminder!

posted by kate on June 6th 2007 at 10:46am
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I regularly use weather widgets on both Konfabulator (I refuse to call it Yahoo! Widgets), my sidebar and Spb Weather on my phone. I think they're all using weather.com data feeds.

And I still manage never to know if it's going to rain.

posted by Ondrej on June 6th 2007 at 11:04am
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yea, ditto w/ moiety. I have the Forecastfox extension on my Firefox.

posted by Jabber on June 6th 2007 at 11:34am
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I like to look at the radar images on weather.gov (radar.weather.gov). You can see storms moving through, can look at total precipitation for 1 or 24 hours, etc. Very handy.

posted by bubble on June 7th 2007 at 6:12am
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I was planning to type exactly what melanie said. and when away from my own machine I use accuweather.

posted by Laurie on June 7th 2007 at 7:47am
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I use the weather on my MSN homepage

posted by PriscillaAmber on June 7th 2007 at 9:43am
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Forecastfox for FireFox....always there in the corner of my browser, telling me which weather I'm missing out on while stuck in the office :P

posted by gregory on June 7th 2007 at 12:57pm
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During hurricane season, wunderground is great-it has all the predictions from the major weather organizations, plus all the history and latest stats. I don't use it for daily weather, it would be more info than I need, but from June–Dec, it's like seeing into Jim Cantore's head.

posted by pelicolina on June 7th 2007 at 5:16pm
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I check weather.com for certain maps and national weather and I check the National Weather Service for other maps like more detailed radar. They have a great national looping radar image. L.A. gets so little interesting weather in dry years like this that I am usually checking locations where my friends live ;-)

posted by kdb on June 7th 2007 at 9:15pm
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In Phoenix, it is sufficient to look at the calendar. Either it will be pleasantly warm with cold nights (November to March) or it will be so hot that your body loses 80% of its moisture when you step out the door (the rest of the year).

Seriously, I have feeds on My Yahoo for the cities I visit most often.

posted by wende in the twin cities on June 8th 2007 at 6:48am
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I have a yahoo email address and have the local weather set to my area on the Yahoo homepage.

posted by DubTriptych on June 9th 2007 at 11:29am
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I love wunderground even with the information overload and the flashing advertisements. It gives you an hour by hour forecast which is great for planning when you're going out for a run or a picnic.

Every time I show it to other people, they start out unconvinced because of the site's ugly design, but they end up using it because it has the goods.

posted by sciencegeek on June 10th 2007 at 3:21pm
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