I posted some time ago about the benefits of using Weather.gov. I still think there are advantages to using that site, but there are a couple of downsides I’ve observed. First, the site is down sometimes. In the age where we have gotten used to almost no downtime for popular sites, to see a site have some regular outages is alarming. Second, the local radar is unavailable sometimes.

My advice on this one is to use Weather.gov as a supplement to other weather sites. It has some great advanced features and loads quickly. But to rely on it exclusively is risky, as it may not be fully available when you really need it…

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