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IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business (www.cnbc.com)

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IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business::IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Hate to tell you this, but it’s been shitty since the NEXRAD feeds broke and they never bothered to fix ‘em.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Maybe for you, but all the other weather websites I've tried are wrong. Even DarkSky was wrong half the time. It said sunny skies when we were in the middle of a blizzard once. I don't know, maybe there's something weird about where I am.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I had a similar experience with Dark Sky, but Weather Underground was always great. The weird part of it is that I’m near Chicago, where the NWS office got trashed for their awful handling of the forecast and response to the storms that led to the Plainfield F5 in 1990 - bad radar was often cited as a reason for that response, so NEXRAD especially has been key to NWS’s improvement here.

It’s www.weather.gov/lot for me now.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh wow, weather.gov looks really nice these days. It used to be bare bones. I may use it from now on, thanks!

Edit: The only thing I don't like is I can't see where it has the current heat index.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Not sure if this is the case for other regions, but it's right here for me:

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, not there for me. Still worth using overall though.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

If only their UI wasn't so trash I'd only ever use weather.gov

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah it's pretty bare-bones. Pretty much the only site I am aware of that still uses image maps. The other one I like is the College of DuPage Meteorology site, though that gets even more archaic in some places: https://weather.cod.edu/

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