Weather resources

[Herc Driver]

I'm a die-hard Weather Underground "wunderground.com" user. The radar options are really great. My squadron uses the "official" Air Force site because we have to due to regulations, but almost always chooses the data delivered by wunderground over other sites - including the military - when deciding to continue flight operations in our local area. The Weather Channel is a vastly over-rated weather source in my opinion. They seem to be more concerned with entertainment or gloom and doom predictions rather than solid weather reporting. Most guys (pilots I work with) will look at the Weather Channel for an overall and very general idea of what the weather is doing, then go to more specific sources like wunderground or the numerous FAA weather sources or pay-weather sites that most flying businesses subscribe to. I will say a positive thing about The Weather Channel, I like their local city forecast. It loads faster and seems to be pretty accurate, but without the "fluff".

Another source that we use at our squadron is the weather you can get at "baseops.net". It is centered on the military of course, but there's a link to aviation weather sites that prove useful, and if you know your local airport identifier, you get to read exactly the same weather that military and airline pilots use.