Speaking of weather, what's your resource choice before heading out to the links?

[NEOHMark]

The weather channel on cable TV?  The Weather Channel internet?  Weatherbug.com?

Personally, I like the TWC's radar imaging but it almost always seems to hang up when one needs it most - when there's a lot of activity in the area.  Weatherbug loads faster and seems to be more reliable, but the graphics are almost cartoonish.

On the cell phone, at/on the course, it's a no brainer for me - Weatherbug all the way.  TWC app takes forEVER, plus a day to load up.

How do you stay one step ahead of the weather?

[bplewis24]

I use the Weather Channel app & default Android Weather widget on my phone most of the time.  The widget works well for giving me basic information for current and forcasted weather.  Weather Channel is more helpful for specific wind conditions and hour-by-hour changes.

If I'm browsing on a PC, I use weather.com, which I believe is powered by the Weather Channel?

I'll have to look into Weatherbug.  I've heard of it several times already.

Brandon

[Fourputt]

I look out the window, check out the sky.  If the sun is shining and there are no clouds building over the mountains, then I have a good change for a nice day.  That's more dependable than any attempt by a national weather service to predict weather here on the eastern edge of the Rockies.  We can usually see it coming from miles away, and take whatever steps are necessary.

[jamo]

Wunderground.com

[GaijinGolfer]

Accuweather.

[clubchamp]

If I'm at home I use NOAA and if I'm out I use accuweather on my phone.

[jmanbooyaa]

I go with the weatherbug app on the blackberry.

[meenman]

I use nothing, since I have been spoiled. I always assume that we will be able to play - I have only been rained out one saturday in the 3.5 years that I have been playing.

I have been frost delayed a few times, but there is nothing wrong with hanging around the pro shop BS-ing occasionally before a round.

[NEOHMark]

Originally Posted by Fourputt

I look out the window, check out the sky.  If the sun is shining and there are no clouds building over the mountains, then I have a good change for a nice day.  That's more dependable than any attempt by a national weather service to predict weather here on the eastern edge of the Rockies.  We can usually see it coming from miles away, and take whatever steps are necessary.

I wish we could do that here in the Great Lakes region.  Severe storms can pop up in less than 30 minutes here because we always have so much humidity in the air.  When warm fronts come through to feed that humidity some energy, the speed at which major storms can develop is breathtaking.  Tornadoes have literally destroyed towns with less than 15 minutes of warning.  You don't want to be on the golf course around here when those kinds of conditions exist.  Walking versus riding here in the lower Great Lakes can literally be a question of survival when storm conditions are brewing.  If the weather is that iffy, I take a cart.

Unfortunately, our weather is just as unpredictable.  It's imperative to have decent weather info on a cell phone when on the course.  No joke.

[awmgolfer]

I don't have a smart phone but have an env3 so I can't get the real good weather apps. Weatherbug on this phone is not good at all. I came across a Garmin Weather app on my phone that has great radar.

[Missouri Swede]

On my android phone: Radar Now! app (for quick weather radar of area), and WeatherBug for temp, wind, forecast.

[Fourputt]

Originally Posted by NEOHMark

I wish we could do that here in the Great Lakes region.  Severe storms can pop up in less than 30 minutes here because we always have so much humidity in the air.  When warm fronts come through to feed that humidity some energy, the speed at which major storms can develop is breathtaking.  Tornadoes have literally destroyed towns with less than 15 minutes of warning.  You don't want to be on the golf course around here when those kinds of conditions exist.  Walking versus riding here in the lower Great Lakes can literally be a question of survival when storm conditions are brewing.  If the weather is that iffy, I take a cart.

Unfortunately, our weather is just as unpredictable.  It's imperative to have decent weather info on a cell phone when on the course.  No joke.

So - did nobody play golf there 20 years ago?  (Hint - that's before everyone had a cell phone. )  Last I knew, that's what on course shelters are for.  The big threat is lightning, not twisters, and we have that threat as bad as most anywhere except Florida.  In fact, it's rare for us to get just rain in Denver.  More than 95% of our rain comes in the form of usually very electric thunderstorms.  I sit in my starter booth (I face due west) and watch the storms build over the mountains, then walk out across the course on legs of electricity.  The storms build as they advance, but they don't normally start to drop tornadoes until they are east of us.  I've stood on the 6th tee watching funnel clouds spin down out of the bottom of big thunderheads which have already passed us.  It's actually kind of a spooky experience.  And I've waited out some really wild electrical storms in the on-course shelters.  One we saw a lightning strike hit the hill 200 yards away from our shelter, just a few yards above the 5th tee.

Anyway, you know that tornadoes don't hit golf courses unless there is a trailer park next door, don't you?

[bplewis24]

Originally Posted by NEOHMark

I wish we could do that here in the Great Lakes region.  Severe storms can pop up in less than 30 minutes here because we always have so much humidity in the air.  When warm fronts come through to feed that humidity some energy, the speed at which major storms can develop is breathtaking.  Tornadoes have literally destroyed towns with less than 15 minutes of warning.  You don't want to be on the golf course around here when those kinds of conditions exist.  Walking versus riding here in the lower Great Lakes can literally be a question of survival when storm conditions are brewing.  If the weather is that iffy, I take a cart.

Unfortunately, our weather is just as unpredictable.  It's imperative to have decent weather info on a cell phone when on the course.  No joke.

Another reason why this isn't practical for me is that I prefer to play a lot of different courses in other cities/counties nearby.  Wind & weather can fluctuate significantly, and sometimes that will be the deciding factor on which course I am going to attempt to play that particular day.

Also, when having to submit an online tee-time several days in advance, weather projections help, even if they aren't always accurate.

Brandon

[NEOHMark]

Originally Posted by Fourputt

So - did nobody play golf there 20 years ago?  (Hint - that's before everyone had a cell phone. )  Last I knew, that's what on course shelters are for.

I look at it this way, if you have the technology available in your pocket to accurately see weather fronts approaching and somewhat predict when/where they'll hit, why not use it?   I like seeing the radar before I head out - and having it with me while playing - if there is any possibility of severe weather.  Our storms develop seemingly out of nowhere - but the weather radar is very nearly real time and they usually have a pretty good notion of the possibility of it happening.  Yeah, I've had to take shelter during a nasty electrical storm - a few times - and I was glad it was there.  But that's not really anything I want to do again.   It was during the days prior to cell/smartphones.  The last time it happened we didn't even get so much as a horn warning from the clubhouse.  THAT pissed me off because they most certainly did have The Weather Channel on cable in the clubhouse.

So I'll be keeping my weather app and phone handy, and hopefully avoid being Trevino'd on the back nine.

[glock35ipsc]

Originally Posted by Fourputt

I look out the window, check out the sky.  If the sun is shining and there are no clouds building over the mountains, then I have a good change for a nice day.  That's more dependable than any attempt by a national weather service to predict weather here on the eastern edge of the Rockies.  We can usually see it coming from miles away, and take whatever steps are necessary.

Since I'm less than an hour north of Fourputt, I'll use his answer as well!  That, and my trusty Indian weather rock!

[Boyder]

Intellicast - best weather website I have ever found ....

http://www.intellicast.com

[boogielicious]

Second on Intellicast.  the radar is excellent.  Reading the sky is also helpful.  I grew up on the Ocean in Mass and got pretty good at it.  But the radar will tell you how long you have before the front is coming in New England.  If the front line is in NY state, then we can play 18 before the T-storms.  If it is in Springfield, then maybe 9.  Worcester, nope.

[ghalfaire]

Originally Posted by jamo

Wunderground.com

yes and weather.com also at times.