Spring Flooding

[Sam]

When I'm planning a fishing trip, I get my weather reports here - just click the map on the exact spot where you're going:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/

The best weather radar I've found is here - zoom in to the area of the map you're interested in, press "play", and it shows the movement of storms. This is what I look at just before we cower under the workbench in my basement shop:

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMapFull.aspx

Here's another handy one for planning trips. Type in the name of any town around the lake, even little towns (Cape Fair, MO), click "Find Weather", then click the "Hourly" tab. That will show a diagram of the temperature and chance of rain for each hour in the next couple of days. I only wish it gave the wind velocity hour-by-hour.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/airportprofile/SGF?from=search_vert

Usually, weather reports on the Springfield TV stations agree with the National Weather Service. When they don't agree though, I've found it's the NWS that's right about 90% of the time. The TV stations are proud of their "meteorologists", but in my opinion they could save a lot of money and increase the accuracy of their forecasts by hiring someone at minimum wage, part time, to look up the NWS forecast online - and then have somebody read it on the air!

The Weather Channel is the least useful of all, for me.

[techo]

That Jill Gillardi lied to me about the weather one time but I don't care.....she is hot!

[mrgungho]

noaa.gov

for sure..no other site is nearly as right.

[Sam]

noaa.gov

for sure..no other site is nearly as right.

mrgungho - That's the same as the first link to the National Weather Service I gave above, it's just a roundabout way of getting there.

Save the direct link for this area, http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/ , and you'll save yourself a couple of clicks and some typing.