How much do you trust your weatherman for purpose of deciding ride or not to ride? What would be the percentage of chances of rain that would stop you from riding? 50%? 70%? 30%?

 

never, i get my weather from the internet and the only way i don't ride for the day is if i see dark clouds when i wake up or if it's already raining

 

Like deltemis said, I don't trust him either. I use the internet and check the Doppler and satellite images if there is a chance of rain. There have been times when the weatherman said 70 percent chance and nothing all day. I got caught out in the rain once also, due to the 20 percent chance of rain. Got caught in an effing downpour. So like I said, I check Doppler and radar on the internet first.

 

I noticed depends on phone app. they say different thing too. If it is not raining when I leave, I go

 

during the summers here there's always a chance of an afternoon shower, so unless the weather says 0% it's always a possibility. i use the weather channel and accuweather to keep tabs on the general forecast, but there's also a guy that lives near me who maintains his own weather page - kinda nice, as the weather can vary greatly even in different parts of town.

 

I check online too. I look at the hourly and pretty much anything under 45% around here is good to ride. I look at the radar from the previous 6 hours and track how other storms farther west are moving and if there is one close to me I use that to determine how this one will move. But I always look outside at the clouds too to make sure

 

weather man says sunny all week!!! i can ride to school thank god

 

I dont trust the local weather guy cause he is full of **** but i do trust myself and some of my peers when it comes to forecasts.

Anyone thats looking for a good site can use this to get up to date forecasts for an area near you. Click the map to find which ICAO is closest to you. Or load the Metar java tool large version. That will get you everything you ever need. haha

ADDS - METARs

That is what us military members use to dissiminate our Forecasts to others.

 

so far i used yahoo for whether and its spot on.... but you have to check the same day of the ride. if you check the day before it can change.

 

Yahoo has not been too good for my area. Weather channel is better. But I forgot about NOAA. I used to use it for boating. And come to find out, they have iphone app too. Thanks