AccuWeather radar

JayC · Oct 30, 2006

I have Firefox 2.0. I have been using the Forecastfox Enhanced extension for a couple days now. I really like it and recommend it to anyone who uses Firefox. However, I have noticed that the AccuWeather radar picks up stuff that others don't. I also have WeatherBug. I compare the AW radar to WeatherBug's and the radar for the local news station. For anyone who is familiar with AccuWeather, what are your thoughts?

Doc_Bob · Oct 30, 2006

I like weatherunderground.com radar images.
Bob

texasjohn · Oct 30, 2006

JayC ... I agree with you both re Firefox and Accuweather... I like accuweather's way of reporting stuff... I also have weatherbug...hate the popups all the time.

randy41 · Oct 30, 2006

i use firefox but dont know what you'e talking about.....how do i get that?

and I like the NWS radar.

o...i found it. cool.

JayC · Oct 30, 2006

texasjohn said:
JayC ... I agree with you both re Firefox and Accuweather... I like accuweather's way of reporting stuff... I also have weatherbug...hate the popups all the time.

You get frequent popups from WeatherBug? That's odd. I only get one and that isn't very often.

randy41 said:
i use firefox but dont know what you'e talking about.....how do i get that?

Forecastfox Enhanced is an extension for Firefox. It can be found at Mozilla's extension website.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1978/

woodchuckie · Oct 30, 2006

I used it for a few hours and liked it just fine but for some reason I lost the right side of every web page including the scroll bar. I couldn't uninstall it I had to do a system recovery to a point a month ago and then reinstalled Firefox 2. It does have some neat new things like full time spell check on every web page. You can now close tabs with one click on the new X they put on each tab. I'm just staying away from those extensions.

JayC · Oct 30, 2006

Forecastfox did that? When you open the Options and go to the Extended Forecast, how many days ahead is it set? I initially wanted it to show 7 days ahead, but it pushed half the screen to the right. I had to lower the number.

scott_vt · Oct 31, 2006

Mornin JayC,
I use Accuweather and WeatherBug, but like one of the other posters mentioned, the weatherbug can get annoying when you get a stretch of bad weather !

Other than that, I like the radar on Accuweather

If all else fails, look out the window !

woodchuckie · Oct 31, 2006

JayC said:
Forecastfox did that? When you open the Options and go to the Extended Forecast, how many days ahead is it set? I initially wanted it to show 7 days ahead, but it pushed half the screen to the right. I had to lower the number.

That may be what happened to mine I think I had it set for seven days also.

Mike120 · Nov 1, 2006

I agree with Doc Bob on weather underground (www.wunderground.com), I've got my station feeding to them and they have both the NEXRAD radar and the regional. You can set the coordinates for your location and it shows up on the radar map. I'm out in the sticks, the local forecasts are more for Houston and are very seldom accurate for my area. Weather underground gives me the tools (and the other private stations in my area) to be a lot more accurate than the local guys.