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Don't ya just love that first snow shoveling of the year? The rest is terrible, but you feel like you accomplished something after the first snowfall.
In college (Syracuse University) in the Fall, we used to dream about the first snow falls because we could then break our skis out.
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The $10 version, free, or subscription?
Rain and cold front blew in last night in Houston. This morning’s temp, 38 degree F, brrr.
I just recently decided to pay $3.99 for the Accuweather app, platinum. The free version is pretty good, but I thought the price was worth it to get a better forecast, be rid of the ads and support the developer. What I don’t know is if the free version let’s you track multiple locations. I like to keep tabs on loved ones.
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As of now, I have 3 weather apps on my phone, AccuWeather (paid), My Radar (free, wants a subscription, $10/year, not going to subscribe) , and Hurricane Tracker (free, and accepts donations, I paid $3.99).
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As of now, I have 3 weather apps on my phone, AccuWeather (paid), My Radar (free, wants a subscription, $10/year, not going to subscribe) , and Hurricane Tracker (free, and accepts donations, I paid $3.99).
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The free version of AccuWeather will let you track multiple locations (My Locations).
This is not unusual. Other free major weather apps do this as well: Weather Underground, WeatherBug, The Weather Channel, etc.
Hell, even Apple's built-in iOS Weather app has always been able to handle multiple locations.
This is not unusual. Other free major weather apps do this as well: Weather Underground, WeatherBug, The Weather Channel, etc.
Hell, even Apple's built-in iOS Weather app has always been able to handle multiple locations.
I just forgot to check that feature before upgrading it. Now it’s possible that they all do this, I’ve not checked, but AccuWeather gives specific rain forcasts like rain starting in 120 minutes. I like that for planning a walk.
I have also been playing with Weather Bug App free version. They want $20 for their premium version.
It's a Federal government website. This agency -- National Weather Service -- does not write apps. Just visit the URL.
Some third-party apps use the NOAA data as their information source. Those developers frequently use ads to monetize their app.
I use the NOAA website for their hurricane center as well as tide predictions and buoy reports.
I use the USGS website for earthquakes (the Earthquake Hazards Program). The American Red Cross has written a free earthquakes iOS app; they are sourcing the USGS data.
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When I'm deeply interested in the weather, I use NOAA's website with a browser on a laptop so I can get to whatever I particularly want to see in depth at a given time.
On mobile gear I use Weather app for just the basics in some locations of interest.
-the ios Safari will resolve the NOAA web site at forecast.weather.gov w/ success
its fast and readable, only in 2 day at a time tho but its free
wunderground.com was better
Hanna, tropical storm is churning for the coast to hit just south of Corpus Christi, hoping to get some rain from it in Houston.
My Radar is pretty terrific, and it looks fantastic on an iPad (love the animated lightning indicators)
Here's a static shot for better detail of the UI:
Here's a static shot for better detail of the UI:
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^^ well that was fast... here it went from watch to warning back to watch to ... "slight chance of t-storms."
I’m skeptical because when I was a young Man in Norther Virginia In 2012 Shper Derecho when there was zero warnings from NOA about it and caused me to loose power 30 days and rich citizens couldn’t get out for 7 days (because of all the downed trees)!
I just realized there are two of, more-or-less, the same sort of thread, the mods should merge the new one, into this one ...
Seven hours today in the car Kansas City to Minneapolis and a little adventure, then another hour to Taylors Falls.
Thirty miles south of DesMoines, Iowa, Interstate 35 heading North, we stopped at a gas station up on a bluff with a lot of dark clouds passing overhead when there was a huge gust followed by high winds, my guesstimate 70 mph straight line winds which lasted several minutes and seemed like a frontal passage. After it subsided, I gassed the car, we jumped back in and proceeded North. About 15 miles north of DesMoines we noticed:
followed by:
then:
fields of corn laid over!
All in all we observed about 8-10 large tractor trailers blown over or off the road and a ripped apart grain silo. The highway was shut down, so we don’t know what was blocking the highway further up, but our detour about 8 miles off the InterState on parallel farm roads, all sorts of large broken and uprooted trees, flattened crops, and multiple farm road intersections where all the stop signs at 4 way stops were laying flat on the ground, down power lines blocking a road, and getting back on the highway, a tractor trailer was in the middle of Southbound lane, the trailer had burned up leaving just a shell of the trailer with a burning smell in the air.
After we got up the road a few miles, we stopped at a highway rest stop and found:
Two trailers resting on their sides and people in a truck still hooked to one of them waiting for someone to help upright it.
After we got in at our destination, I searched Online and found, winds were up to 100 mph, 500k people without power, holy crap!
Derecho winds tear through U.S. farmland, leave 500,000-plus without power
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Thirty miles south of DesMoines, Iowa, Interstate 35 heading North, we stopped at a gas station up on a bluff with a lot of dark clouds passing overhead when there was a huge gust followed by high winds, my guesstimate 70 mph straight line winds which lasted several minutes and seemed like a frontal passage. After it subsided, I gassed the car, we jumped back in and proceeded North. About 15 miles north of DesMoines we noticed:
followed by:
then:
fields of corn laid over!
All in all we observed about 8-10 large tractor trailers blown over or off the road and a ripped apart grain silo. The highway was shut down, so we don’t know what was blocking the highway further up, but our detour about 8 miles off the InterState on parallel farm roads, all sorts of large broken and uprooted trees, flattened crops, and multiple farm road intersections where all the stop signs at 4 way stops were laying flat on the ground, down power lines blocking a road, and getting back on the highway, a tractor trailer was in the middle of Southbound lane, the trailer had burned up leaving just a shell of the trailer with a burning smell in the air.
After we got up the road a few miles, we stopped at a highway rest stop and found:
Two trailers resting on their sides and people in a truck still hooked to one of them waiting for someone to help upright it.
After we got in at our destination, I searched Online and found, winds were up to 100 mph, 500k people without power, holy crap!
Derecho winds tear through U.S. farmland, leave 500,000-plus without power
Derecho winds tear through U.S. farmland, leave 500,000-plus without power
A storm packing hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. Midwest on Monday, causing widespread property damage in cities and rural towns and leaving more than half a million homes and businesses without power. The storm compounded troubles for a U.S. farm economy already battered by extreme...
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Derecho winds tear through U.S. farmland, leave 500,000-plus without power
Derecho winds tear through U.S. farmland, leave 500,000-plus without power
A storm packing hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. Midwest on Monday, causing widespread property damage in cities and rural towns and leaving more than half a million homes and businesses without power. The storm compounded troubles for a U.S. farm economy already battered by extreme...
Yah, it was pretty fierce about 7-9 pm last night. About ready to head out for some work errands and see what the trees look like. I've seen some reports of a few small towns hit hard.