Where do you get your weather forecast?

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Where do you get your weather forecast?

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For years, I’ve just used the standard weather app on my iPhone but it’s so unreliable these days.

Where do you get your weather forecasts from in Japan?

Weathernews
Tenki.jp
Yahoo weather
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Which ones do you like and find are reliable?

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https://www.jma.go.jp/

There are lots of different views, and you'll need to localize, but this is (exclusively) what I use.
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Another vote for JMA. I particularly like their one hour precipitation nowcasts, which are detailed and highly reliable. Useful if you need to find a dry hour for a walk, run or cycle.
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I like Yahoo tenki, but I am not really comparing it to anything else. Seems to work better than the Google one though.
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I use The Weather Channel. But it got found out over this typhoon that wasn't, in the area I live. But overall Japan's weather forecasting is hopeless.
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I like the NERV app for it's raincloud radar feature.
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Cracaphat wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 11:15 pm But overall Japan's weather forecasting is hopeless.
Really? Incredibly accurate would be my experience.
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beanhead wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2024 12:27 am
Cracaphat wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2024 11:15 pm But overall Japan's weather forecasting is hopeless.
Really? Incredibly accurate would be my experience.
Absolutely. Compared the UK in particular :lol:
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Another vote for hopeless here. Half of my children’s activities cancelled this weekend due to the typhoon (Taiko -indoors!!!!, football and tennis). Yesterday was bright sunshine, blue skies and hot as heck. Today is cloudy but dry. Utterly ridiculous.
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Since many are in tokyo, this is set to what I'd be looking at if I lived there:
https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/#pattern=de ... ode=130000
Also, I rarely use this site on mobile, and prefer a big screen to see all the info.

In the blue sections across the top you can reset/adjust the location for most anywhere in japan. But the first section there is especially good (あなたの道の街の防災情報). Click on that and you get all sorts of things. If you choose アメダス there (which is not the 'rain' ame, but stands for Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System), you get temperatures. But notice at the top instead of 気温 there are other choices in that pull-down. One that I've watch there is the 24hr precip totals for one or another part of the country. Attached is some rainfall totals the other day. (This view might be better than the attachment.)
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