Re: accurate & quick
Posted by deanna on September 24, 2008, 9:52 pm, in reply to "accurate & quick"
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I'm afraid you're never going to find a site that's accurate and quick for La Manzanilla. I check several each day to try to get an idea of what might happen here, and it's still pretty much a guess since there's really no local forecasting done on-line. Here are some of the sites I check: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATWDEP+shtml/182217.shtml? I click on the Surface Analysis first, then read the analysis - "East of 115" (today's description) would be pertinent to La Manzanilla. http://www.cna.gob.mx - the Mexican weather site has many areas to check, but the one I use most is the 9 AM bulletin (in spanish). Their satellite is usually current too. Under Boletines - Avisos y Alertas - you can pull up maps showing predicted areas of heavy rainfall each day. When a storm is in the area you'll find a long bulletin, updated every few hours, but the info is mostly from NHC and the site below is easier to use. http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/ - NHC information which is the best way to see what's happening with tropical storms (great graphics). http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/epac.html - I use the 8 hour loop to see what has been happening, but it's just a guess to try to predict what's next unless you've also read all the other data. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml?epac - this is the most helpful page on the NOAA site during hurricane season. You can see at a glance any areas they're watching at a particular time and if it looks interesting, go to wunderground and look at the computer models to see what they're predicting. All in all, this is a really dicey way to try to find out what's going to happen each day, but the only way I know how to do it until there are enough people living on this coast to encourage real weather forecasters to pay attention to us - (but do we really want Anderson Cooper standing on the beach in his hip-boots, doing a live feed for CNN??). Maybe not. |
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