# Weather.com has lost me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 26, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693 "2007-02-26T06:38:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/1 "2007-02-26T06:38:59Z")
I’m using [accuweather.com](http://accuweather.com) from now on. [Weather.com](http://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: > **[National and Local Weather Radar, Daily Forecast, Hurricane and information...](https://weather.com/)** > > The Weather Channel and weather.com provide a national and local weather forecast for cities, as well as weather radar, report and hurricane coverage 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](http://weather.com). It’s ok, Accuweather is better anyway. I only went back to [weather.com](http://weather.com) because I was lazy about typing the extra 4 letters. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/2 "2007-02-26T06:46:04Z")
A pilot friend of mine told me about [intellicast](http://intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx) 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](http://weather.com). ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/3 "2007-02-26T07:00:34Z")
There’s also [The Weather Underground](http://www.wunderground.com/). The only site I surf at work. I can justify radar imagery. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/4 "2007-02-26T07:09:13Z")
I used to use wunderground ages ago. I don’t remember why I stopped. I think I just fell out of the habit. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/5 "2007-02-26T18:25:50Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/6 "2007-02-26T18:49:27Z")
Personally, I go strait to the source: [http://www.nws.noaa.gov/](http://www.nws.noaa.gov/) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/7 "2007-02-26T18:52:26Z")
[NOAA RADAR](http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar_tab.php) [NOAA Water Vapor](http://www.weather.gov/sat_tab.php?image=wv) [NOAA Geostationary Satellite Server](http://www.goes.noaa.gov/) [NOAA Southern Mississippi Valley Sector Enhanced Radar Mosaic Loop](http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/southmissvly_loop.php) ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/8 "2007-02-26T19:23:10Z")
You can also get animated radar for Google Earth. [http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/kmzgenerator.php](http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/kmzgenerator.php) ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/9 "2007-02-26T19:33:22Z")
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](http://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](http://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](http://Accuweather.com) reports that it is raining, and it’s not even cloudy out. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/10 "2007-02-26T22:43:39Z")
Thanks for the alternate sites, folks. I had noticed the changes to [Weather.com](http://Weather.com) over the last few days (trying to figure out how much snow we were going to get). Bleck. The new version sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Yeeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/96bed5/32.png) [@Yeeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeeter)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/11 "2007-02-27T17:14:48Z")
a trick I found that works pretty easy: type in [National Weather Service](http://weather.gov/66062) and it will bring up the weather for the zip code you typed in (66062 in my example). It goes to the NOAA website. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/12 "2007-02-27T17:29:20Z")
There is also [The Weather Network](http://www.theweathernetwork.com/). It’s Canadian, but covers the States at least regionally, and can be switched to US units (I think). ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/13 "2007-02-27T17:53:38Z")
[QUOTE=N9IWP] Personally, I go strait to the source: [http://www.nws.noaa.gov/](http://www.nws.noaa.gov/) Brian [/QUOTE] Indeed. The source that pretty much all other weather sites use without the annoying commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/14 "2007-02-27T18:19:04Z")
You know, [weather.com](http://weather.com) used to be one of the sites I would cite for clear, clean information. [Garden.com](http://Garden.com) was similar. [Garden.com](http://Garden.com) is no longer the same, they went under. I had a client like the cleanness of [garden.com](http://garden.com) so much, he modeled his own site after it. I find [weather.com](http://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](http://imdb.com) just did a revamp. An excellent example of a site trying to be way, way too much. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/15 "2007-02-27T19:03:33Z")
Waddya expect for a product of The Weatherless Channel? (I simply _must_ Pit those weasels someday.) ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weather-com-has-lost-me/393693/16 "2007-02-27T19:13:01Z")
If anyone would like the no-ads version of Weather Underground, send me an email (it’s in my profile.) I’m a subscriber, and there’s a link there allowing me to give out free “gift” subscriptions good for a year of ad-free weather. I’ll hand out as many as they allow me to on a first-come first-served basis.