For once the weatherman saying 3 to 4 inches expected accumulation is not referring to sn{censored}, but expected rain. When I left the Home Defect just before lunch time, I answered the check out girl asking if I had my swim fins with No but I changed the tires on my car to paddle wheels!
Everyone seems to have their own special website when it comes down to the forecasting of weather, but this one in my opinion takes some beating. Try looking at Rain Alarm and you will be presented with a map showing moving rain in the form of radar. Each of four still, is taken at half hourly intervals, so it's easy to determine how quickly the rain is moving and in which direction.
You can set your location manually or let it sort that out itself, but once identified an arrow helps.
Even without the arrow, you can scroll anywhere in the world to see "if it's raining".
Take today for example, we woke to find it dull & wet and the prospects looked as though it was in for the day. However, rain-alarm showed it to be a mere band of rain that would be gone within an hour, and it was..
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