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September 08, 2005
The Tale of Two Forecasts
Accuweather and the National Weather Service have two very different scenerios for Tropical Storm Ophelia. Check it out..
Accuweather Forecast has Ophelia crossing Florida and into the gulf.
National Weather Service has Ophelia heading out to sea.
Posted by Jeff at September 8, 2005 09:26 AM
Comments
What exactly is Accuweather? A non-governmental weather-monitoring service?
Posted by: Aaron at September 8, 2005 11:25 AM
The funny thing is that both the Weather Channel and Accuweather (and pretty much everyone who does weather forecasting), is simply repurposing NOAA information. They are packaging free information. Kinda random, but true.
Accuweather says they also have their models and such that make long range forecasts more reliable and "RealFeel" temps more realistic -- but in the end, it all the same info.
So it's interesting these vary so much
Posted by: Cory at September 8, 2005 04:49 PM
In this Wired News article, Wired News for the Masses, there's a good description of the relationship of NOAA to Accuweather and other commercial weather enterprises that use NOAA data. The article says they weren't too pleased about NOAA's new XML feed last winter which threatens their market.
Personally, I like Weather Underground -- check out the Discussion about Ophelia in the Tropical Weather pages.
Posted by: john p at September 9, 2005 02:57 AM