Weather Forecasting… is tricky in our business.

How about all this winter weather?  I don’t know about everyone else but I am ready for spring.  Not only has this been a winter with unusual frequencies of precipitation, it has been an exceptionally long winter as well.  It seems like as soon as we start getting back up to the normal temperatures we get hit with some more snow or ice or freezing temperatures.
Throughout all of this weather I have been using a number of different sources for weather data.  I have noticed the drama continuously added to winter weather on the local news stations in the Kansas City Area.  I have come to rely mostly on FOX 4 here in Kansas City for the most accurate and least dramatized weather forecasts.  I also rely on a number of different internet weather sites to gather data and make my own opinion about forecasting the weather.
The sites I find most helpful are: accuweather.com, weather.com, noaa.gov, and intellicast.com.  They all have some features that are better than others – which is the reason I use them all when looking at weather.  Accuweather.com always has forecasted accumulation totals which can be helpful.  Weather.com and Intellicast.com have great radar links.  Weather.com has a great interactive radar map that can be really helpful to see how much snow, sleet or rain is headed our way.  NOAA.gov is a government site that has pretty accurate long range forecasts.
I would suggest using all the resources you have when trying to make an accurate prediction of the weather to come.  Each site and weather station gathers data differently and from different sources, which can lead to different forecasts.

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