I’m using accuweather.com from now on. Weather.com has pissed me off again. Now somehow every time I put in my zipcode, it redirects to this crap instead of just a regular weather page:
Yes, it’s some specialized weather page with GOLF in mind. GOLF!!! I can think of few things on this earth that I care about less than golf, and sports in general pretty much tend to piss me off just by existing, so the fact that now every time I want to look at my weather I have to look at some bullshit interactive GOLF MAP is just not happening. BUH BYE weather.com.
It’s ok, Accuweather is better anyway. I only went back to weather.com because I was lazy about typing the extra 4 letters.
A pilot friend of mine told me about intellicast yesterday. He has to pay *really *close attention to weather, and he likes this site the best. I like the radar on it much better than weather.com.
I, too, am leaving them behind. They recently changed the way they do the local radar Map in Motion and it sucks. I liked just fine seeing the ‘green mass move across the screen’ that told me, clearly, where the precipitation is!
Not a fan of Accuweather myself. This dates from this past summer, when the weather panel at the bottom of my Firefox window, which is from Accuweather, announced that it was raining.
I looked outside; the sun was shining. I went outdoors; there’s a nice blue sky with barely a cloud in it. I looked toward the horizon in all directions; no sign of threatening weather approaching.
I went back in and went to the Accuweather.com site. It still said it was raining at my location. So I think: Well I know the report isn’t really from my town, perhaps it is raining at O’Hare, Midway or DuPage airports. So I look at the radar. The only hint of rain anywhere close to northern Illinois is directly over the center of Lake Michigan, nowhere near any land.
I go to my Weather Channel desktop, which is from Weather.com. What does it say? Mostly sunny! Just like it actually is outside.
I would have considered the whole thing a fluke, except it happened again, just a week or so later. Accuweather.com reports that it is raining, and it’s not even cloudy out.
Thanks for the alternate sites, folks. I had noticed the changes to Weather.com over the last few days (trying to figure out how much snow we were going to get). Bleck. The new version sucks.
a trick I found that works pretty easy: type in National Weather Service and it will bring up the weather for the zip code you typed in (66062 in my example). It goes to the NOAA website.
You know, weather.com used to be one of the sites I would cite for clear, clean information. Garden.com was similar. Garden.com is no longer the same, they went under. I had a client like the cleanness of garden.com so much, he modeled his own site after it.
I find weather.com frustrating now as well. I don’t go there enough to search around for alternates (but thanks folks) but instead of it being a clean, efficient place for information, it is now the golf/allergy/annoyance place of choice by I presume, people who don’t actually want to know anything.
I love the evolution of sites. First they were simple, then everyone got on the portal bandwagon, then google kicked their ass, then they start simplifying, then google goes and gets all portaly.
imdb.com just did a revamp. An excellent example of a site trying to be way, way too much.
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