What weather site has a decent radar?

[GaryGrey]

Over the last few years weather.com has become not just an usable site but completely worthless in the ability to predict weather 6 hours out with any decency. Weather Underground was good but those days are far in the past. Used to be able to look at the forecast and know when it would rain within the hour. Now I'm getting screwed thinking I can mow because it wont rain for 3 hours and getting rained on 30mins in. The local news just embed the shit from weather.com so that is out. Someone tell me there is a half way decent site for weather?

 

[Orion Balls]

NWS. The government isn't good at many things, but this is alright.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

If you're looking for a good forecast, I'm having decent luck with Foreca. Since the thread title is radar, I'll throw in that the best radar app I've found is RadarScope. It's a bit much if you aren't a weather nerd though. I miss the GIS maps you could load into PYKL3, but the developer stopped supporting it and the NWS updated their radar.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

The National Weather Service [weather.gov] is the best for weather forecasts and basic radar.

If you have android Wx { https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=joshuatee.wx&hl=en_US } is good uses the NWS forcasts and uses Level 3 radar data (more accurate then what weather.com and most other commercial weather services use) Wx is free and open source.

If you want to drop some money, Radarscope for iOS and Android is also good its 10 bucks and gives you professional level (level 2 and level 3) radar reads, but its more for weather enthusiast, Radarscope also has a windows 10 and OSX app but its 30 or 40 bucks.

If you want to drop even more money on Radar software for Windows there is GRLevel2AE and GRLevel3 (and if you want something different with a monthly cost GRLevelEarth) these are very powerful radar programs that you can do a lot with, they cost a lot but are what most/every weather nerd and (some?) NWS offices used before Radarscope. It is Windows only.

Also to note Level 2 has a higher resolution and larger file size then 3 but is less "pretty". The higher the number the more "processed" the data has been, t

 

[Win98SE]

If you want to drop even more money on Radar software for Windows there is GRLevel2AE and GRLevel3 (and if you want something different with a monthly cost GRLevelEarth) these are very powerful radar programs that you can do a lot with, they cost a lot but are what most/every weather nerd and (some?) NWS offices used before Radarscope. It is Windows only.

Have you tried https://www.simuawips.com/ ? Good "cross-platform" (it's a web app) alternative IMO. I normally get a subscription during storm season.

And agreed on Radarscope.

Weather Underground used to have this amazing "lite" version of their site at wund.com. It was like some web developer got tired of all the web 2.0 shit and just made the most barebones weather site possible. Great for pulling up a quick radar before mobile apps caught up.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

Have you tried https://www.simuawips.com/ ? Good "cross-platform" (it's a web app) alternative IMO. I normally get a subscription during storm season.

And agreed on Radarscope.

Weather Underground used to have this amazing "lite" version of their site at wund.com. It was like some web developer got tired of all the web 2.0 shit and just made the most barebones weather site possible. Great for pulling up a quick radar before mobile apps caught up.

I had an account with simuawips when it was free, I kind of forgot about it, it was nice, but I can't speak about how it is now.

Side note: it turns out the Telnet server for weather underground still works.

Rainmaker.wunderground.com

 

[GaryGrey]

This has been great. Cannot believe somehow forgot that NWS existed.