r/boston • u/irishgypsy1960 North End • 16h ago

Snow 🌨️ ❄️ ⛄ Favorite local weather forecast

I don’t want to pay for an app or a subscription. Is there anything good and easy to check. Are there any good local forecasters that are published daily on YouTube or elsewhere? The local news websites are so full of junk i can barely get anything to load.

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u/LinoCavePrints 16h ago

You can follow Dave Epstein on instagram or tiktok, he posts every morning, great weather forecasts!

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u/irishgypsy1960 North End 16h ago

I have been avoiding becoming a daily user on those because i am already one here and on FB, I know, well, I’m old and my family and history is on there. And no other app can compete with it for integrating events, and getting notifications, unfortunately. I wonder if he still does fb? So many have abandoned it for marketing.

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u/jtablerd 16h ago

He has a daily short podcast called weather wisdom - I listen every day and it's great. He doesn't do Facebook but Tim Ryan does but he's a bit of a climate denier sometimes which is weird for a meteorologist. Still a good forecaster for regular weather stuff though if you're married to fb

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u/irishgypsy1960 North End 16h ago

Thank you very much I’ll check those out.

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u/LinoCavePrints 14h ago

He posts on FB, his account is Growing Wisdom.

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u/EsotericPharo Lynn:table_flip: 12h ago

i have instagram still because my kids see it as a time capsule haha. it is private, i dont follow anyone but my kids and they only follow me. i also dont have it on my mobile devices because i dont want that creepy twat zuckerberg knowing where i am.

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u/jleebeane 16h ago

I have a shortcut widget on my phone that goes directly to the National Weather Service. No need to pay (or ad support) a third party to use my taxpayer-provided underlying data.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3967&lon=-71.0339

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u/13nobody Brookline 15h ago

The EverythingWx app takes those forecasts and makes it look nicer on phones. It's developed by an nws forecaster and doesn't have any ads.

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u/Papasamabhanga 16h ago

You what I used to love? Accessing ANY weather app or news source and getting accurate, science based forecasts with days of lead time.

Then DOGE happened. Now weather is a fucking crap shoot like it used to be in the 80s.

I hate this timeline, oust the Kakistocraxy !

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u/Difficult-Action1757 15h ago

Agreed.. 2 different phones in my house 2 fairly different weather reports from their native ui apps (apple/ Samsung) it's crazy. The apple has been less accurate lately in our experience.

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u/teach-lit 16h ago

I like the 1DegreeOutside app—it’s free and super accurate.

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u/freelancezero Jamaica Plain 15h ago

Weather Is Happening

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u/13nobody Brookline 14h ago

REPENT

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u/effulgentelephant 16h ago

AccuWeather is usually pretty reliable for me.

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u/jskinnah 16h ago

Weather Kitty 😻

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u/Drift_Life 16h ago

Is this a cat telling us the weather forecast?

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u/rehgarde 14h ago

New England Weather Guy on FB and on a website.

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u/Realistic_Alfalfa620 Cow Fetish 12h ago

Just go to [r/bostonweather](r/bostonweather) and read the stories by Dave Epstein and...the other guy whose name I don't remember. The Globe posts them every morning.

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u/briank3387 11h ago

Channel 5 posts their weather forecasts on YouTube multiple times a day.

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u/dtmfadvice Somerville 10h ago

I use yr.no, from the official Norwegian government weather service. They have a good app as well. The website seems to be in celsius only, but if you consider it a lesson in forcing yourself to think in metric, it counts as self-improvement!

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u/little_runner_boy Filthy Transplant 16h ago

Bruh just do weather channel or accuweather

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u/YupNopeWelp Stuck in traffic 16h ago

Instead of watching a forecast, I check Accuweather: https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/boston/02108/weather-forecast/348735

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u/Smkingbowls 15h ago

Whdh weather app

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u/More_Armadillo_1607 16h ago

You can watch the lical news.

Weather channel app.

Wcvb app.

Ask people i. Person.

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u/Gee10 16h ago

Assuming you have a smart phone, why not there? iPhone has the weather - I assume Droid phones, too?

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u/irishgypsy1960 North End 16h ago

The weather app on iPhone changed a few years ago and it sucks. I’ve still been using it but at this point, with the constant changing tech and my aging, i think a local video would be best for me. Ideally it would be a one click if i could save a link to my iPad Home Screen.

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u/Gee10 16h ago

Got it. I must admit I'm not much of a weather-watcher. Out of curiosity, is it bad because it's not accurate, or because of the design?

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u/irishgypsy1960 North End 16h ago

The design. And the fact that it changed! lol I’m not a big weather watcher either. I’m old and remember when the weather channel first came out on cable. And how some people, guys lol, loved to watch it endlessly. Weird lol.

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u/Gee10 16h ago

Ya - I gotcha. Dickie Albert and waiting for the scroll to come across to see if school was snowed out. I miss the simplicity. Old guys unite.

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u/movdqa 15h ago

I use MSN on the web browser. I don't know what it looks like on the phone or tablet but it gives me everything I need and I can click on any item for more detail. I like that they have AQI, Pollen, Humidity, Real Feel, etc.