CraigM
6244
I went for a run yesterday afternoon and, my god, was it exciting. Barely any traction on foot, I wore my hiking boots for it, and stuck to sidewalk residential roads, staying away from through streets.
Major inefficient running, today is a lot better (if not more sloppy)
nKoan
6245
Take care when running on icy Portland streets
CraigM
6246
Been there, done that!
The secret is you hold your arms out parallel to the ground and not close to your sides. You look like the worlds goofiest DJ spinning records, but the high and wide arm action helps provide stability.
Houngan
6247
Always fun to reset your brain, we hit 17 degrees today and it feels like 40 did two months ago. 23 degree swing.
Meanwhile Central and Western Europe have been smashing warm temperature records for December and January. Approaching 20 C in many places.
Houngan
6250
Dammit, Dark Sky just shuttered their website apparently, it was my favorite PC-based “for the love of god just let me see what the weather is going to be.” Anyone have any recommendations? Weather.com and wunderground are right out, they look like a MySpace page.
I learned the feds actually have a site. i mean, we all know its the feds who pull all the data but somehow I never knew they had a website that collated it as well. I blame google and search optimization engines.
weather.gov
Houngan
6252
I’ve used that, it’s still clunkier than Dark Skies was. I could just click a link and there’s the radar and forecast for ten days without a thousand ads loading in. Revolutionary concept these days, I see why they had to shut it down.
accuweather.com is ok, shows radar map. there’s also a time toggle thing so you can see storm fronts in motion
Houngan
6254
Googling around WeatherBug is probably the best bet. Still have to click to see 10 day but at least the link is right there at the top, and it’s not popping up full screen ads.
It may be clunky I’ll agree, but it does have one rather useful element no one else provides, weather station data that is local to you. Someone has a station one street over from where I live as an example. And that very much fills that all weather is local thing I’m looking for.
I use NWS for forecasts, and some random self appointed weather guy in the North Kitsap Facebook page my wife frequents who has made it his self appointed job to keep tabs on multiple weather models and provide updates.
CraigM
6257
Blame the Weather Channel (no, for real, actually blame them), as they lobbied for laws that basically forced ‘NOAA to hobble their offerings so they legally could not be superior to the commercial offerings using their data.
I’m fond of wunderground’s 10-day graphic forecast, as a quick overview of expected temperature, wind, clouds, and precip all in one.
That sounds like such a stress-free job. Ideal for the unambitious soul like me.
Thrag
6260
I’m a wunderground devotee as well. I also have my own weather station which is connected to it so I have that going for me. I also like to see the wind in my overview. The forecast is pretty good, though it tends to seriously underestimate snowfall in these conditions because the line at which the snow turns to rain is often very close to me.
I’ve been out of town while the big new year’s storm moved through. Looks like at least one more round of rain/snow mix before I can get back. Sierra cement. Neighbors on nextdoor are already complaining about the plow walls blocking their driveways. My road is going to be impassible. I wish I had brought my snow shoes with me for the minor trek from the street to my door.
While I wish I could have been home to start clearing, it’s a good thing I’m not home because power went out yesterday morning and didn’t return until this morning. The forecast was showing an overnight low of 9F. NV Energy’s ETA on restoration wasn’t until tonight. I was having a minor panic thinking I’d be coming home from the holidays to an impassible road and burst pipes. Thankfully when the power came back up and I could access my home system it looks like the temps only got down to 42 overnight inside.
I did get this amazing shot from one of my security cameras in between the rain and snow phases of the storm.
Put me firmly in the OG National Weather Service camp. I agree that poking around the main weather.gov page can be clunky, but the individual forecast pages for your location are hard to beat.
For instance, here’s the forecast page for Seattle 7-Day Forecast 47.61N 122.32W (weather.gov) (surprise! It’s gonna rain.). Plug in your zip code in the box in the upper left of the page and you’ll get a pretty concise 7 day forecast, with links to the local radar lower on the right hand side.
Seems to me all the other weather sites just take the NOAA data and interpret it for themselves. I’ll just take it from the source, thankyouverymuch.
Douglas
6262
I’ve been using https://www.forecaweather.com. The 10 day page is concise and legible. I can click on a day to get hourly forecasts. That’s everything I miss from Dark Sky.
Ah was curious if you were in town as your neighbor Jeremy Renner had a nasty accident someplace around there…
— Alan
