Until just recently my main source for weather information has been Intellicast because their national map was clickable for a regional map centered on Nashville and then another more detailed map of even more local radar imagery. The latest version is now a choice between Columbus, GA, or Bowling Green, KY. They appear to have changed almost every aspect of the site within the past week or so, since I used the features I just described as recently as April.
Do you use another source for a quick read on weather that may be affecting you in a matter of hours? Have you found a website more reliable than Intellicast?
I have links to all the local TV stations’ weather pages, and they’re usually most reliable when things are right on top of us, but I like to get a good view of the whole country at least when I log on the computer and whenever I get a sense that things may be picking up intensity weatherwise.
When storms are approaching I prefer the online tracking until the storm is within a few miles away, at which point I power down and turn on the radio. Using the TV channels for weather updates, unless they’re serious enough for local channels to interrupt programming for radar coverage and commentary, is either too much of a hassle or too spread out in time. The Weather Channel’s “Local on the 8’s” is okay, but who wants to wait 8 minutes?
It’s interesting to compare and contrast the Accuweather forecast to the National Weather Service one.