I feel so special and important. :P
Perhaps a little arrogant... or maybe a lot arrogant...
You know one of the many great things that I am looking forward to about moving up to Oklahoma is that I will no longer be the weather expert at the local church. XD There are guys up there who will be able to humble me and my self proclaimed expertness that I day dream about. The truth is whatever you see me post on Facebook needs to be suplimented by reliable sources of information. I was focused on a very small part of the Dallas area and I still got overwhelmed with the number of dangerous storms impacting that area of concern. I jokingly say I hope you aren't realying on me for information but I really do hope it is true. I am glad that some of you found my posting helpful and informative and I hope I can keep it up for future events. I mean I would be doing it any way whether or not people were interested. BUT PLEASE HAVE ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF GETTING INFORMATION. In fact I BEG YOU to have more reliable means of getting information. I am not saying don't call me or ask me about the current weather. By all means do! I enjoy it.
But make sure you've got other sources available to you if at all possible.
Here are some very reliable weather information sources.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/
This is probably one of the best in my opinion. This is the WFO (Weather Forecast Office) in Ft. Worth's home page. On the map of the county warning area you can click anywhere and get a forecast and a list of all the watches and warnings that apply to the area you clicked. I keep the City of Murphy in my bookmarks.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=33.02133046690858&lon=-96.61376953125&site=fwd&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text
For radar data on the computer I use the wunderground site.
But it isn't the most user friendly I must admit. However it is pretty useful once you learn your way around the interface. There are better radar programs you can purchase but for the computer they tend to be expensive.
It is probably a good idea to have a weather radio of some sort. (This might actually be the most important and reliable source of information that I could point you too). I use the internet whenever possible. But if for any reason that is not possible a weather radio will provide me with enough information.
Radar Scope for the iPhone is extremely useful, easy to use, and displays warnings as well. It is $10 and is probably the best radar source I have. However, it is probably overkill for some people. The problem of course with it and other internet sources is that it does go down when the servers are being used tremendously. I had that problem yesterday with Radar Scope and the radar would not update on time.
There are other sources you can use like WFAA's site. (Although I do not this site myself and therefore can't speak for its usefulness).
http://www.wfaa.com/weather
Really the point of all this is to simply make sure you know where storms are and what you need to be doing without having to rely on Facebook... which itself is unreliable. Use it... but do not rely on it solely. Trust those who are actually getting paid to do it.
Radar Scope for the iPhone is extremely useful, easy to use, and displays warnings as well. It is $10 and is probably the best radar source I have. However, it is probably overkill for some people. The problem of course with it and other internet sources is that it does go down when the servers are being used tremendously. I had that problem yesterday with Radar Scope and the radar would not update on time.
There are other sources you can use like WFAA's site. (Although I do not this site myself and therefore can't speak for its usefulness).
http://www.wfaa.com/weather
Really the point of all this is to simply make sure you know where storms are and what you need to be doing without having to rely on Facebook... which itself is unreliable. Use it... but do not rely on it solely. Trust those who are actually getting paid to do it.
