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Where is a good place to get weather related to fishing? I want something that lets me look at the past week of weather with temps pressure that kind of stuff and gives a good forecast for the next couple days with the same pressure temp precip ect. I have looked around but a lot of them don't show pressure in the forecast or only let you look at the temp for the past couple days and it doesn't give much other info in the past parts. Anyone know of a good place?

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Try the Weather Channel.

With the wealth of information on the net, this will seem to be overkill, but if you'll indulge me for a moment...

If you would like to learn something new, you can make your own weather charts and forecasts. I was a weather specialist in the USAF, and if they could teach me in a few months, most people can learn this in a few paragraphs!

First, find a map of your area (state/neighboring state or smaller). Make many copies. Now, you need to collect current conditions from around your area. Good sources are the tv, internet, airports, military bases, golf courses, state parks, beaches, etc. The three things you need most are temp, pressure, and wind speed/direction (or is that 4 things?). On one of your map copies start writing the information down for each location you've found.

Now play connect-the-dots. Find the areas with the same pressure and start drawing lines between them. Use a pencil with a big eraser! The wind direction will tell you which way to draw the lines. Areas with higher winds will have the lines closer together.

When you're finished, you will likely have a series of hills and valleys. You should easily be able to identify highs/lows. There must always be a low near a high and a high near a low. Just the way it works.

Now you need to do what all professional weather people do: Stare at the map for a looooong time, then make your best guess. If you are sitting under a big ridge of high pressure, it will take a long time or a serious system to break down that ridge. Expect a few decent days. If you're at the bottom of a big valley, changes happen fast! If your between the two, look out your window, shake your head, and go back to bed.

A weather forecast beyond 24-48 hours is just a WAG anyway. Try this and hone your skills against what really happens over a day or two. You couldn't possible be any worse than the people you see on tv.

Or just use weather.com or weatherchannel.com ;)

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AccuWeather

http://www.accuweather.com/us/fl/lake-wales/33853/forecast.asp?partner=townnews

WeatherBug

http://weather.weatherbug.com/FL/Lake%20Wales-weather.html?zcode=z5602

WeatherChannel

http://www.weather.com/weather/local/33898?

I find that they're all correct some times and all incorrect some times.

Naturally, you would set the website to your area

Roger

http://www.wunderground.com/

Weather Underground - I would suggest signing up (its free and you can then save cities and searches and the only way you can see detailed history of the location) They give you the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly history of your location. You can also customize that history for a specific date range. Its pretty awesome, comes with graphs and everything.

That history area will also let you search back to any date (all the way back to 1945 if you wish) and will tell you everything you need to know about what the weather did that day from hour to hour. They give you an hourly graph of wind speed and direction, temp, barometric pressure, conditions, etc.

It can be extremely useful if you know how to interpret everything.

Florida

  • Super User

www.weatherunderground.com

With the wealth of information on the net, this will seem to be overkill, but if you'll indulge me for a moment...

If you would like to learn something new, you can make your own weather charts and forecasts. I was a weather specialist in the USAF, and if they could teach me in a few months, most people can learn this in a few paragraphs!

First, find a map of your area (state/neighboring state or smaller). Make many copies. Now, you need to collect current conditions from around your area. Good sources are the tv, internet, airports, military bases, golf courses, state parks, beaches, etc. The three things you need most are temp, pressure, and wind speed/direction (or is that 4 things?). On one of your map copies start writing the information down for each location you've found.

Now play connect-the-dots. Find the areas with the same pressure and start drawing lines between them. Use a pencil with a big eraser! The wind direction will tell you which way to draw the lines. Areas with higher winds will have the lines closer together.

When you're finished, you will likely have a series of hills and valleys. You should easily be able to identify highs/lows. There must always be a low near a high and a high near a low. Just the way it works.

Now you need to do what all professional weather people do: Stare at the map for a looooong time, then make your best guess. If you are sitting under a big ridge of high pressure, it will take a long time or a serious system to break down that ridge. Expect a few decent days. If you're at the bottom of a big valley, changes happen fast! If your between the two, look out your window, shake your head, and go back to bed.

A weather forecast beyond 24-48 hours is just a WAG anyway. Try this and hone your skills against what really happens over a day or two. You couldn't possible be any worse than the people you see on tv.

Or just use weather.com or weatherchannel.com ;)

Thanks for the info.  :)

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