NWS cries "Wuffy!" again

[altivo]

So they started on Sunday beating their drums about this terrible snowstorm that would surely paralyze the area. The predicted snowfall kept creeping upward with each revision of the bulletins until they got to 15+ inches in a 24 hour period. Of course, we got nothing of the sort. If it gets up to five inches by tomorrow morning, I'll be amazed

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[cabcat]

More snow?? I rely more on my personal weather station, it's been far more accurate than the local bureau, oddly enough though Weather.com provides more accurate weather reports for my area :D

[altivo]

Weather.com is so full of advertising that you can't get to the details.

The official National Weather Service is wrong so much of the time that you can't trust their predictions at all. I use them mainly for the satellite and radar information and interpret it myself.

By far the best information on current conditions is obtained by looking out the window or opening it. It seems that most of the time what they say is happening just isn't true.

[mondhasen]

I mentioned the SDS in that tweet- One of the services I use for weather is actually called the Weather Underground, or wunderground.com

[altivo]

I didn't know about that site, but I'm sold right now. I went there and looked up Union, IL (the closest village) and the readings that come out are from Cherry Lane Farm. That's right across the road from me, about 700 feet from my house. They put up a wind generator last fall and I thought it looked like there was a weather station on the tower...

[cabcat]

Aha that's why you use a little program called weather watcher, user an older version and it pulls just the details from weather.com :) Very good, the new versions don't due to issues with the program pulling info without the ads ;)