Best way to get weather information along the route

Do you guys use these weather Apps while driving?

 

They are for trip planning, though sometimes the radar map overlay is useful on the road, especially with the Traffic layer turned on.

 

I use MyRadar as my "go to" app while driving. My phone is on a magnetic mount next to my GPS. This is an essential tool if you run during tornado season out of OKC. MyRadar displays current radar. I also turn on the wind feature and weather warning layers.

I made a run from Eastern Oklahoma to Odessa, TX last spring during an "event". I added almost 200 miles to the trip, and some points driving east and then south on 2 lane roads, disregarding the 75 mph speed limit. I finally found a truck stop while headed eastbound on I-20, parked and went inside just before the line of storms came through. No tornadoes where I parked. When I got back to the truck I discovered both rear view mirror front covers had been shattered from a blast of wind just before I decided to make a U-turn and out race the storm, chased by a white wall of hail.

It was quite a thing navigating on the fly while watching supercells mushrooming out of nowhere on the radar, blocking my path south to safety. Yeah, having that phone mounted hands free is a good thing.

 

https://www.windytv.com

How to use...

 

Have you tried looking out the window?

 

Is there a window app?

 

Will that work on my iPhone ?

 

Flash lightning and flash floods aren't compatible with the system.....

 

I just had a trip from Kentucky to Las Vegas, company routed me I-64 to 70 to 15 south.
Argh!! Colardo in the winter!!
I could have chose a different similar mileage route and easily had my fuel stops changed.
I used Apple weather, adding a few towns along route for hourly weather, WeatherBug and The Weather Channel app, Google maps to check the flow of traffic and 511 for Colorado road conditions.
But if I timed it right I would miss most the snow and snag a reset in VEGAS before delivery,
And using all that info, I hit about 20 miles of slow snow covered roads.

 

511 works in the west. I'm assuming all over. No need for an atlas.

Weatherbug is all i've ever used.