As most of you know being on the lakes makes you very weather aware. It seems the weather is amplified due to wide open spaces and a lot of activities that depend on the weather, especially ones on the water.
So I've become a weather-holic over the years.
My all time favorite App was by Wunderground because it had several unique features no other apps had. I've tried and bought a whole bunch of them. Many folks with weather stations know about Wunderground because they encouraged uploading your weather station data to them to share. The weather stations often have the hooks built in to upload to Wunderground. They use all these weather stations to build weather models on the weather. They got so good at it that Weather Channel bought Wunderground, then IBM bought the Weather Channel. Since IBM bought them the good weather apps disappeared (many apps used Wunderground free data feed). And some of the better weather apps that do exist want you to pay a subscription, which I refuse to do. But they still are not as good as the old Wunderground Apps.
So I finally gave up on "apps" and just go to Wunderground web site directly. The same exact data that the apps used to have is still available. And over time the web page has become more mobile device friendly. I setup short cuts on my wife's iPhone so she can click them for our MA vs NH weather and get it instantly.
Here is sample link, but it may not be configured for you. You need to hit the "Configure" button and turn on everything.
https://www.wunderground.com/forecas...l/43.63,-71.76
Here is what is unique.
1) "% chance of rain" is useless, completely useless. How much accumulation at what rate and exactly when is what's useful. See the green peak circled below. How sharp that peak is will tell you if roads will wash out AND WHEN.
2) Wind. Wind is everything on the lake. It can tell you the direction graphically as the day progresses. I've seen days that look horrible on a "normal" forecast that turns out the primary wind might be later but a gorgeous morning just before it.
3) Clouds. "partly cloudy", "mostly sunny", again completely useless. You can clearly see a "clear night", when the clear starts and when it ends. See circled section labeled "star gazing". Actually it is not a great star gazing night because it will still be to windy, that evening. Again, you can SEE that. It could be pretty good at 4AM though.
Getting a graphical birds eye view of the clouds, accumulation, wind (with direction) over spans of time all in one view is priceless.
It's also very accurate. I hope they don't start charging for the web site.
Note that you can drag a marker over the graph to see the stats at any point in time. That can be a little fussy to use on the phone.
Watch out there are some howling winds coming starting tonight through tomorrow night. The chart does not show gusts. 25 mph sustained is pretty high.
Look at Monday, pretty interesting weather day for sure. But look, it will probably have a good sunset because the clouds clear out just as it gets dark.
The black vertical line is the current time. The orange vertical line (on 11AM Wednesday) is a marker that you can drag around to get all the numbers for that time.
