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ClimbingWeather.com all screwed up

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Matt Westlake · · Durham, NC · Joined Jul 2009 · Points: 662

Hi all,

I have been using and enjoying climbingweather.com for trip planning for a while now but lately it seems like it's fallen into disrepair. The windspeed forecasts have been a joke between my friends and me for a couple months now (uh-oh, looks like we'd better brace for 100mph winds today at the crag!). I was sort of suspicious things were going haywire but the rain forecasts didn't seem to be out of whack until I went to check this weekend but it's obviously gone the way of the wind info...

Anyway, just wondering if any of the rest of you have any background info or a sense if things ever might get fixed. I think I sent something to the site admin back when I noticed the wind thing but never heard back. That at least is a universal problem with all the US destinations I checked so I figured I wasn't the only one making noise.

Matt

FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276

Matt,

I noticed the windspeed errors, but the temps seem to be fine. I like to use more than one weather report when I'm planning something. NOAA.gov is my primary, go-to weather forecast.

As long as you have already contacted them at climbingweather.com, there's not much else you can do.

You did contact them, didn't you? If you're not sure, write them another letter on their "Contact" page.

Edit: I just submitted an e-mail to them on their "Contact" page about the wind speeds. We'll see...

Matt Westlake · · Durham, NC · Joined Jul 2009 · Points: 662

Well, the rain forecast seems pretty kooky unless (as a partner of mine posits) we can expect to be climbing in the eyewall of a hurricane this weekend.

Go home climbingweather.com, you are drunk.

For comparison:
forecast.weather.gov/MapCli…

I did try to contact the site btw.

FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276

Wow, looks like you're in for some non-stop rain. :)

Anonymous · · Unknown Hometown · Joined unknown · Points: 0

I would ignore weather and use srh.noaa.gov/ridge2/RFC_Pre… to find out if it is raining / when it last rained. Forecast are worthless and wrong over 50% of the time. I have been climbing when they were calling for 70+ percent chance of rain countless times and had blue skies.

Andy Laakmann · · Bend, OR · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 1,990

My favorite precip tool. Particularly good for the long range "big" picture

hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/day1-…

Note times are in ZULU/UTC times.

whitewalls · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2014 · Points: 146
yr.no/place/United_States/U…

I've been usin yr.no for ages. Just type where you want a forecast for. Hope it helps.
Ball · · Oakridge, OR · Joined Jan 2010 · Points: 70

Yea, that site is pretty much worthless. It always forecasts rain

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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