I've used weather.com as a source for planning travel over the Interstate system up to 10 days in the future - but they've changed their format and it's not very useful anymore. can anyone suggest a good source for getting an idea of what the road conditions might be like for the next week or 10 days for route planning?
source for Interstate road conditions - future forecast, not current conditions
Discussion in 'Truckers' Weather & Road Conditions' started by bryan2, Feb 16, 2015.
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Not sure what the point of that would be.
I don't think you can trust the weather that far in advance.
Do you even know where you're going to be 10 days from now?
Don't see how unless you're going Home or running dedicated routes. -
I need to deliver a boat from iowa to port angeles, washington no later than the end of the month, but can't leave for 2 more days - there's more than one route and I have more than enough time so looking for the best weather window and need to see the options in reference to the weather.
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I use to use that site as well, I hate the new format too. I am interested in knowing ahead of time as well...maybe not 10 days ahead, but a couple days at least.
'olhand Thanks this. -
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yes, I've found several sites that give current and 24 hour road condition forecasts, but need something with long range forecast like weather.com previously offered. are you aware of any sites that give those options?
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The Commercial Channel(a.k.a. The Weather Channel) website has the old interstate maps still. Just not searchable by route any more. It's: http://www.weather.com/maps/driving
It gives you 7 days of the entire USA's interstate system. I actually found it on the forum under the road/weather conditions tab -
yes....found those but they're the ones that generated my original question because they aren't nearly as useful as the previous format. Recently I've just been looking at the forecast for the multiple cities along my route rather than any of the driving maps - takes much longer than before but produces the info. hope someone posts a better resource.......
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In fall/winter months I use
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wwd/winter_wx.shtml
In spring/summer months I use
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hmmm....I would just leave giving plenty of time for weather. I use noaa and safe travel usa. Let it be know that a weatherman can be wrong 50% of the time and still keep his job
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