I still favor checking out the satellite images directly and coming up with your own forecast...I've been just as accurate (and inaccurate) as the professionals but at least I've only got one person to blame. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Saltlake/satellite/ Click on the 4km animations...Visible/IR/Water Vapor...I like the 'rock' feature. Also, this page (Hanna) from NOAA seems to be the closest region to Wolf Creek and has served me well; http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/wrhq/ TotalForecast.csh?TotalForecast+WR+UT+009+013 They've changed tonight's forecast from 20% chance of showers to just partly cloudy...and like Don mentioned, these appear to be the type of clouds that say goodnight after dark. db On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 03:56 PM, daniel turner wrote:
Jo:
My current weather (whether) algorith favors National Weather Services site
Using it requires a lot of drilling down but you can get a to smaller scales than other sites.
For tonight I noted that Wendover is listed as "mostly Clear" while Salt Lake, Park City and points east are "partly cloudy". Also I look at how close to the dew point the night time temperature has fallen the previous early morning. So I'm going to the west desert tonight. Possibly Lakeside, probably the Grassy Mountains. I'm going tonight, not because it's a weekend, but because the whole state will be cloudy for the next week starting tomorrow.
Clear Skies.... I hope.
DT
--- Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com> wrote:
Anyone out there have good sources of cloud prediction... other than buying new equipment? Weather.com says clear all night, wunderground has 40 to 45% cloud cover all night. Just wondering if either of them are very accurate, or if someone on the group has a better source of information. Thanks
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