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Re: Weather website.
RickF #331208 12/11/10 04:16 PM
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Yeah, it was definitely the thought of landing - nose down at terminal velocity - that kept me mentally busy wink

Agree, spins are normally the hard ones. I was flying a Cessna 172 that has about the most gentle stall you could imagine (someone said it "relaxes" rather than stalls, and that seemed about right) but it was still enough for fear of heights and blind panic to kick in. I wondered if the stall/spin difference was because at least the ground is kinda moving around in a spin while in a stall it's just... there..


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Re: Weather website.
bridgman #331300 12/13/10 03:51 AM
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NWS Storm spotter here...

I go to the source, the National Weather Service. www.weather.gov. They're the only entity that's purely about weather and not also in the business of making money by selling advertising. wink

For you, Wid, I think you'd be looking at NWS Chicago : http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/

Specifically, read the "forecast discussion" for your town. Click on the map or put in your town/zipcode, then look on the bottom right of the page. This is a write-up produced by the meteorologists at your local office. It gives an inside look at what the meteorologists are thinking, often discussing aspects of the forecast that they don't mention in the broad forecast. I find it very useful and interesting. "Tomorrow it'll be sunny & 20" vs. "Tomorrow, we might see scattered snow flurries in the morning, but they should move out of the forecast area by mid-day and lead to sunny skies. Temps will range from the upper teens in the west to lower twenties in the east."

The "hourly weather graphs" are very helpful in knowing when precip will start/end, etc.

Otherwise, I like www.wunderground.com. Mostly because I have a home weather station, and I upload data to wunderground, so I don't see any ads. I use it to check on the weather at my house at any time, from anywhere. Wunderground's forecasts are ok, but their "wundermap" display is awesome and definitely superior to the NWS. Lots of neat overlays; storm direction, intensity, precip, stations, etc. Invaluable during storm-chasing season.


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Re: Weather website.
PeterChenoweth #331302 12/13/10 04:13 AM
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Use the accuweather or weather.com aps on my iPhone for moat weather updates


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Re: Weather website.
Wid #331316 12/13/10 12:59 PM
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I have a good friend who is a meteorologist for NASA and he sent me some links on NOAA's National Weather Service. I use that site and weather.com.

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