Weather, both current and forecasted, is one of the most important pieces of the information puzzle put together each day by ovee-the-road truck drivers. In order to assist in the assembly of this puzzle I've included a few tools to determine the weather, both current and forecasted, at your destination and some of the key points between where you are now and where you want to go.
The first of these tools is a provided by AccuWeather™. You can input either the name of the city and state or the zip code for the area in which your interested. You'll be taken to a page that'll provide the current weather as well as a fifteen day forecast option.
AccuWeather™ Current Weather & Forecast Tools
I've also included a similar link that provides the same information for cities and provinces in Canada.
AccuWeather™ Radar Weather
AccuWeather.com™ also has also provided theCyberTruckStop.com with access to the latest radar weather information. Just click on the image below and you'll be taken to a page that shows the current U.S. radar weather map. On top of the radar image you'll find several options that'll enable you to modify the map and detail various states or sectors within the U.S.
Instant Weather - Now Playing On a Cell Phone Near You
AccuWeather.com now offers personalized weather updates to subscriber cell phones and handheld computers, or PDAs. Their Premium Wireless service is offered to 130 million cellular customers through fifteen wireless service providers nationwide.
Subscribers can access a wide range of weather information to take the guesswork out of their weather-affected activities. Truckers in particular could benefit from Premium Wireless services, which include:
- Radar images that can be zoomed in or out, with animated local, metro, state and regional radar maps
- Severe weather warnings
- Satellite maps with regional and national coverage
- AccuWeather's pinpointed ten-day local forecasts with the exclusive, patented RealFeel Temperature
- Detailed hour-by-hour forecasts up to twelve hours out
- Current weather conditions for chosen locations
- AccuPOP, which predicts the probability and amount of rain, snow and/or ice in three-hour increments for any location through the next four days
- Air quality and pollen alerts
- Humidity and UV index ratings
- The ability to store multiple zip codes, for fast and easy weather checks of most-traveled locations such as home, work and school
- International forecasts with weather data from around the globe
- The Hurricane Center with forecasts, satellite imagery and predicted storm movement
- The Almanac with sun and moon data
"AccuWeather is setting the standard for weather content on wireless devices," says AccuWeather.com's Jim Candor, Senior Vice President of New Media. "Building on the tremendous success we experienced with our first wireless weather forecasts, we enhanced our product to meet the needs of cellular users seeking accurate, informative weather data at a glance."
For more information and to sign up, visit AccuWeather.com.
Weather Info From NOAA
The AccuWeather links are great for quick access to current weather conditions as well as weather forecasts but there are other resources as well; one of them is NOAA. NOAA is the acronym for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which may be better known to most of us as the National Weather Service. If you follow the NOAA links you'll be taken to a web site with an incredible amount of current weather information as well as forecasts and history. If you've got a few minutes to devote it's a site well worth investigating.
NOAA Interactive U.S. Weather Map
