We finally had a day off together and decided to make the most of it. Karina wanted to go to the beach, so we headed out to sunset bay beach on lake Erie. The Weather Channel told us not to go, he said “Its going to be partly cloudy, with a chance of thunder storms! Don’t go to the beach, it’s almost an hour drive and you could potentially have a terrible time!”
We noticed that, while he was saying all this, he was slowly trying to cover up the radar map. It showed two large green blobs that had already passed over lake Erie and headed south. When I asked him to show me the radar for the next six hours he reluctantly displayed a wide open sky with nothing but sun on the horizon.
“I never trusted that guy,” Karina later told me, while we were on our way to Silver Creek, “Nine times out of ten he says it’s going to be a terrible day and it’s beautiful outside!”
Even while we were at the beach the forecast insisted that it was raining. That Weather Channel can be a jerk sometimes.
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No more Weather Channel for this sunny boy! I now get my radar direct. Here are the links, and they are awesome:
Close-up for our area (fine-tunable to your neighborhood):
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=BUF&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
Water vapor loop:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html
Infrared (click animate image):
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseastconusir.html
National radar, plus regional boxes:
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php
Local forecast: (selectable to your immediate area):
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.868918993667116&lon=-78.48907470703125&site=buf&smap=1&marine=1&unit=0&lg=en
NOTE: the Local Forecast immediately above is for my neighborhood in Alden. But don’t believe what the are forecasting. They never get it right. Just look at the radars for yourself.
~eric.
ps: one more, for hurricane watching
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo_atl.shtml