AccuWeather last fall:
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When weird weather is moving in, I like this site:
Radar Imagery - Environment Canada
With it, I can pull up the closest radar station (for me it's Bethune), &
can usually predict the time a storm will hit my house within 10 minutes
or so. It's great when the sky looks nasty, but you still want to BBQ, etc...
This is the Bethune station: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html
and from there you can walk along to other stations across the country
to find the one closest to you.
Radar Imagery - Environment Canada
With it, I can pull up the closest radar station (for me it's Bethune), &
can usually predict the time a storm will hit my house within 10 minutes
or so. It's great when the sky looks nasty, but you still want to BBQ, etc...
This is the Bethune station: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html
and from there you can walk along to other stations across the country
to find the one closest to you.
Ya, I could link to the active doppler radar with my phone through Accuweather.ca too.
Haven't tried with their new layout.
There's a saying.
The weather forecast is right enough times that you can't ignore it and wrong enough times that you can't rely on it.
The weather forecast is right enough times that you can't ignore it and wrong enough times that you can't rely on it.
That got me a few times in Saskatchewan,i hear an extreme weather warning and start looking around for a storm only to realize it's coming in a day and a half.Something like the dog running away for days thing,guess you can see it coming.Here in Alberta if one comes on the radio it usually hits pretty fast after the warning.
Try this one next time. Radisson, Saskatchewan - Radar Imagery - Environment Canada
It's the one closest to where you are working. It's an animated map in
incriments of 10 minutes covering a 70 minute span usually.
With the summer storms coming, if you hear a warning on the radio,
you might be able to pull this map up on your phone, etc...and see
what is actually coming (or not coming anytime soon) and be able to
predict its arrival to withing a few minutes.
Perfect! I take my laptop and aircard with me in my truck all the time so that will work.
This time of year (March) it doesn't look very impressive. Wait 'till you
can watch a prairie thunderstorm marching along in July on that site.:lol:
There is an app for Ipod or IPhone called "radar Canada" that uses the radar stations from environment Canada that gives the location of the precipitation for the last hour so you can predict when it's gonna hit you.
Last year I was filming a show at a festival, when I saw a rainstorm coming about ten minutes away on my IPod. It seemed to be a clear sky but the high trees on the wind side were blocking the view of what was coming.
Someone else who was besides me also filming, was wondering what I was doing packing up my stuff, did the same thing when I showed him...and while I don't know where his trailer was, I got to mine just in time to escape a downpour, that was over in about half an hour.
Last year I was filming a show at a festival, when I saw a rainstorm coming about ten minutes away on my IPod. It seemed to be a clear sky but the high trees on the wind side were blocking the view of what was coming.
Someone else who was besides me also filming, was wondering what I was doing packing up my stuff, did the same thing when I showed him...and while I don't know where his trailer was, I got to mine just in time to escape a downpour, that was over in about half an hour.