I've found NWS (NOAA) is by far the most accurate. Old company I worked for had a pilot, he told me that's the service they used for weather for the above reason.
It’s cool. Screw you northerners.
We've already had more than our yearly average snowfall. Time for Northern Iowa to catch up.
Picking up around/after 7 PMwhat time friday in the Des Moines area is this supposed to start?
Probably. Wouldn't try to push it any later.Driving back from Cedar Rapids to Cedar Falls area on Friday around 5-6 pm.. Will I be fine?
I like the forecast discussion provided by the NWS. I don't have a deep understanding of what they are talking about, but I can gather enough to know how certain things are and which direction things are likely to move if the forecast is going to change.They are generally very accurate but the depth of information that they provide is what I find the most valuable. It's just not worth the time for broadcast meteorologists to go to that detail because 99% of their audience doesn't care. As long as they can find out if it will be sunny or cloudy, the temp and if it will rain/snow they don't care about the details.
As far as aviation weather goes the NWS Aviation Weather Center has some great info but to me a lot of the time it still comes down to that forecast discussion. I also use some other sources to graphically show the weather as well as an official briefing so that is on record.
I like the forecast discussion provided by the NWS. I don't have a deep understanding of what they are talking about, but I can gather enough to know how certain things are and which direction things are likely to move if the forecast is going to change.
Overnight runs now that the storm is on shore did speed up arrival time a bit.what time friday in the Des Moines area is this supposed to start?
Overnight runs now that the storm is on shore did speed up arrival time a bit.
Probably more like the PM commute in Des Moines now, 4 or 5 PM for start time.
Totals still holding pretty widespread in the 4 to 6 with smaller pockets of 8+