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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by 8_hours_ago on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:06PM (#17956162)
https://weather.gov

I live in a coastal area with highly localized weather, and weather.gov gives me by far the best forecast. Sites which only have city-level granularity don't work well when the temperature can be 5-10F different less than a mile away.

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by vinhnx on Monday September 10, 2018 @10:56PM (#17956868)
Yr.no - also check out their iOS app https://www.yr.no/?spr=eng
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by JNRowe on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:02PM (#17956885)
I'm in the UK, and always use yr.no for overviews. I love the occasions when a .no site uses their heavy snow icon for what passes for a blizzard around here.

And, I (ab)use the sites of local folk who have their weather stations and webcams available when I'm about to go for a bike ride.

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by King-Aaron on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:59PM (#17956405)
While it doesn't count for much if you're outside of Australia, the BOM (Bureau of meteorology) is probably the best I use.

http://bom.gov.au

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by Nicksil on Monday September 10, 2018 @07:49PM (#17956099)
https://weather.gov - Primary source

https://windy.com - Neat visualizations

https://darksky.net - Secondary/Quick-glance source

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by akulbe on Monday September 10, 2018 @07:51PM (#17956108)
Another vote for https://darksky.net
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by notacoward on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:53AM (#17970030)
I like Weather Underground for most things. The 10-day graph presents information in a way I find useful and easy to understand. However, for the weather right now I like AccuWeather's MinuteCast. It's eerily accurate. I use them to plan my runs on variable days, and I almost never get caught in the rain if they say it's supposed to be clear. On the other hand, if it says it's going to rain in 23 minutes and I decide to wait for a bit, it practically always does rain in exactly 23 minutes. Ditto for snow in the winter. The exact amounts might be off, but the timing is usually spot on.
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by bgdnpn on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:03PM (#17970139)
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by farseer on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:29AM (#17957564)
https://www.bbc.com/weather/map

Very intuitive and simple weather map

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by bprosnitz on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:58PM (#17956399)
Are there any weather websites with confidence intervals?
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by ckennelly on Monday September 10, 2018 @10:57PM (#17956872)
They're not confidence intervals, but weather.gov's forecasts include a link to the NWS office's forecast discussion (updated every few hours). This can give you a bit of insight into forecaster uncertainty and the variation between models.

To excerpt the most recent (8:14PM EDT) NYC office's discussion:

"As a result, expect most precipitation to be focused mainly during the evening hours. Hi-resolution models have been suggesting that the overnight hours could be mainly if not entirely dry. This is due to 850 hPa warm front lifting to the north by around 6z and a dry slot moving in from the SW (DC/PHI area). For now, have just lowered pops to chance. If trends in the high resolution models hold, pops will need to be lowered further if not removed for the overnight hours with future updates."

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by detaro on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:02PM (#17956422)
not quite that, but kachelmannwetter.com/weather.us has a mode where they'll show you the results from different models:

https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/vorhersage/2950159-berlin/xl...

https://weather.us/forecast/5128581-new-york/xltrend

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by beningrad on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:40PM (#17956581)
When it comes to planning an alpine climb, I use http://www.mountain-forecast.com to judge what sorts of gear I might need. Super niche use-case, but it's better than anything else I've found.
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by Jeremy1026 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:23AM (#17959034)
Weather Underground[1], I love their 10-day forecast view with the graphs of temperature, precipitation chance, pressure, and winds.

1) https://wunderground.com

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by ebcode on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:21PM (#17956946)
I usually just go here to look at the west coast: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-epac.html
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by guben20 on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:10PM (#17956182)
weather-util[1] for text forecasts

#IMAGEVIEWER a static url for radar i.e. [2]

weather.gov/"zipcode" for anything needing greater detail

[1]http://fungi.yuggoth.org/weather/

[2]https://radar.weather.gov/lite/N0R/BGM_loop.gif

Out of the scope of the question, my local TV news station gives the most accurate forecast of any other source. Also handy are top of hour terrestrial radio updates and NOAA Weather Radio.

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by ezekg on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:40AM (#17960707)
The UI sucks but it gives you the most info: https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by Odenwaelder on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:38AM (#17958760)
Not a website, but the german DWD WarnWetter App gets its forecasts directly from the german national weather service (DWD).
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by Lordarminius on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:33PM (#17963105)
on Linux CLI or any its cousins :$ "wttr.in/<your city>" Gives a 3 day forecast that I have found to be quite accurate
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by dpeck on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:23PM (#17956957)
$ curl wttr.in/atlanta

Is great if you’re in the terminal.

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by trevyn on Monday September 10, 2018 @07:56PM (#17956118)
Google: <place> weather
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by tudelo on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:42PM (#17956586)
weather.gov hourly forecast. It has a nice graph :)
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by anotheryou on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:35AM (#17957588)
graph heavy android app: flowx
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by GlenTheMachine on Monday September 10, 2018 @07:45PM (#17956082)
Forecast.io
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by lingz on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:20AM (#17957532)
Met Office
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred weather website? by arwineap on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:32PM (#17956265)
windy.com

Provides the means for me to look for myself :)