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[Don Schwirtlich]

What do you guys use for reliable local weather reports? I am trying to schedule outdoor activities and Dead Wrong Dale and his colleagues have me very frustrated with their forecasting. I don't buy the "weather is affected by a butterfly flapping their wings in Japan" either.

I may buy one of those home weather stations things if nothing else works. Right now, looking out my back window gives me a better forecast than listening to the sources I watch (local channels and The Weather History Channel).

So what do you guys use?

[am3]

as far as the weather goes no channel in corpus is worth 2 cents. they are always wrong. i always look at the surf cams on corpusbeach.com thats about the best way to tell the weather. if not noaa.gov has some good reliable forecasts or weather.com.

[tyler]

I think all of them are just the National Weather Service. Most of the TV guys use the national weather service then tweak that based on their experience etc as to where most of the rain will occur.

Here is the corpus forecast link:

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=78414


Here is the one I use for the surf:
http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/GM/250.html

[RttlTrap]

Here's a cool link for the surf forecast. Seems to jive with the surfcams (usually).

http://www.wetsand.com/swellwatch/swellwatch.asp?CatId=299

[pinsjeepster]

I check http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalWide.asp?loc=kcrp&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=RadarImagery&product=Radar&prodnav=none and the bouy data for the wind http://www.srh.noaa.gov/crp/marine/default.html You can compare the
two forecasts. Like Tyler said NOAA is the main source the local channels.
-good luck & good fishing-

[Guest]

"Reliable weather forecast" is an oxymoron. Aside from the surf cams, the best real-time indicator seems to be the NWS's web info from that buoy east of Baffin Bay, since the prevailing southeast winds create waves that are measured last at that location before they hit the beach at Big Shell. I like to see a report of 2-foot waves or less out there.

That "butterfly effect" excuse is an allusion to the impossiblity of computing beyond a limited space and time in a chaotic system, which the weather definitely is. In this case, the weather is highly dependent upon initial conditions, even ones as small as the pressure exerted by a butterfly's flapping wing. For anything like even short-term accuracy in such a system, you'd need a huge number of data measuring points, both at the ground and at various levels above it, and, even if you had the computing power to extrapolate from all of it, the farther ahead or away one forecasted from current data, the less reliable that forecast would become. At some point, a local forecast from the TV is no more reliable than an almanac. In fact, the almanac, based on averages, sometimes is a better predicter because the local weathermen either do not know or seem to forget that certain kinds of weather are very rare in South Texas, but they go ahead and prognosticate against the odds, anyway. We call such weathermen "Yankees."

[FlakMan]

I like this bouy. i expect it's the one Johnny French uses too:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42020

When this wave height is high so is the surf at PINS. Right now wave height is 7.5-ft.,
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[texmaps]

I like this one
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/ifps/crp/GFE/default.html
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[fred]

I use the information from the bouy (42020) east of Baffin and the windcast for Brownsville put out by intellicast to go offshore from Port Mansfield. It doesn't always work out exactly right, but it is the best I have found. LOL.

[Bluffer]

Anything other than Dead Wrong Dales!
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[The Trout Scout]

Regarding Weather Reports for the Coastal Bend, it's like I tell my clients:

"If you want a 'tourist report' then listen to your local weatherman.

If you want a 'weather report', then go talk to a Mariner."


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[rabbit]

Better yet just go outside and look
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