{"id":520,"date":"2006-12-27T17:26:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T00:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oclandscape.com.previewdns.com\/ocblog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2024-04-06T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T21:51:51","slug":"how-we-track-local-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/how-we-track-local-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Track Local Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a day where I am sitting in my office, warm and dry, while our crews are rained out, I have been tracking the rain progress online. We use a few different websites to track storms, and play amateur meteorologist. Here are some of our favorite sites-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/weather\/map\/94903?name=index_large_animated&amp;from=LAPmaps&amp;day=1\">Weather.com<\/a>&#8211; Doppler\/Satellite of West Coast to track storm fronts<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/weather\/tenday\/94903?\">Weather.com<\/a>&#8211; 10 Day Forecast for North Bay<br \/>\nNational Weather Service- North Bay Forecast<br \/>\nCBS5-Channel 5 local news- Weather site with News Videos<br \/>\nKGO7- Channel 7 Accuweather<br \/>\nNWS- Climate Prediction Center- Gives general information on likelihood of normal or above normal rainfall and weather. This is the type of information meteorologists use to make predictions (take with a grain of salt).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dryday.com\/30dayWeather\/US\/California\/San+Rafael.html\">Dryday.com<\/a>&#8211; Long term forecast that are supposedly 85% accurate using historical and climate modeling. In reality your odds are about as good in Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><em>What our crews often quip:<\/em> Weathermen and women are <em>mentirologos<\/em> (liarists), from the Spanish mentira (to lie) and meterologist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/archives\/2006\/12\/how_we_track_lo.html#comments\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a day where I am sitting in my office, warm and dry, while our crews are rained out, I have been tracking the rain progress online. We use a few different websites to track storms, and play amateur meteorologist. Here are some of our favorite sites- Weather.com&#8211; Doppler\/Satellite of West Coast to track storm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/how-we-track-local-weather\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How We Track Local Weather<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}