Weather Channels
 

So what's the best most reliable weather reporting channel that you use?

Now daft question alert, I've been keeping an eye on the Weather Network and don't understand why when it says the same amount of snowfall, it can either be reported as flurries, light snow or snow? Something I don't know about snowfall in Canada?:confused:

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http://www.myweather2.com/City-Town/...o/Toronto.aspx

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/wea...mbia/vancouver

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I use the weather network's website and find it quite reliable.

It is odd, sometimes, how it describes light rain and it's chucking it down or the expected snowfall in a 24 hour period might be greater for flurries than heavier snow.

That seems to happen with other sites too.

But it's a really useful tool for picking the best day for weekly shopping or just making sure you've got the basics or collecting prescriptions.

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Get a weather gadget with a screen....hang the sensor outside and it transmits the info indoors to your screen

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then there is the environment Canada website

http://weather.gc.ca/

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We used to use the hamster until he popped off a few weeks back; if he was building a big nest and didn't want to come out, we knew the weather was going to be bad.

I actually can't think of any time he got the forecast wrong. Hopefully the next one will be as accurate.

Otherwise, yeah, we tend to look at the Weather Network and Environment Canada web sites; if they agree, they're probably right, if they disagree, it can go either way.

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Forecast.io is quite good.

Eg: http://forecast.io/#/f/43.5208,-80.2315

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It just says "LOADING". Which, IMO, is as good as the Weather Network's forecast.

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Never heard of this one before.. but I like the look of it! Will have to test it out, see how accurate it is.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_snow

A 'flurry' is like a shower, intermittant; 'light snow' is like normal rainfall, where visibility is unaffected but is persistant; 'snow' is like a heavy rainstorm.

There are many types of snow in Canada, lol.

I like the 'weatherbug' app.

:)

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What's a squall?

Just yesterday I asked "is this a squall, a localised flurry, a scattered flurry, light snow?" but Charlie didn't seem to know.

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The time period it falls over. e.g. 4cm in 1 hour is snow, 10cm over 24 hours may be light snow. Also the interpretation of the station putting out the forecast.

Environment Canada is the most reliable and up to date source. Most other providers get the data from here.

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A snowsquall is a brief, very intense snowstorm

:)

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If you can see your car on the drive then that is light snow

If you cannot see your drive then thats not light snow

If several feet of snow falls into your house when u open the door, thats a heavy snow accumulation.

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I like Yo Window. Pretty pictures and fairly accurate forecasts. Norwegian i think

http://yowindow.com/weather.php

Norwegian based not just forecasts for Norway, not much use that, in Canadas.