ForecastAdvisor Enter your zip code and the site shows the average accuracy of the various weather apps so you can pick the best one for your geographical area. It also shows which apps are better for temperature forecasts vs precipitation.

Best Weather Apps according to BGR (2023).

Weather Underground - Abington Nice display packs a lot of info by hour including the amount of rain. Here is the same display for Weather Underground's Philadelphia forecast.

Weather - Abington - from TimeandDate - simple presentation of hourly, daily, and extended 20 day forecasts.

MSN Weather - Abington - Microsoft has gotten high ratings for AI assisted weather forecasts.

The Weather Channel - Willow Grove has hour by hour forecasts, extended forecast (10 days), and maps. Includes air quality.

The Weather Channel - Philadelphia

Accuweather for Abington has a 15 day forecast.

Storm Tracker 6 - ActionNews, WPVI weather, has air quality and pollen maps.

From CNN, try Abington Weather or Philadelphia Weather.

NOAA Willow Grove forecast.

Yahoo Abington Weather

Yahoo Philadelphia Weather

Weather Underground Weather Stations This is a Wunderground site that shows a Google map with backyard weather stations identified and that you can view.

Roslyn Weather Station

WeatherBug - weather for your local area.

Meteoblue has hourly forecasts, maps, and nice graphics. It also has a forecast graphic that is based on multiple prediction models. Huge amount of info packed into single screens of display. Metric system is used throughout the site.

WeatherSpark has a pretty unique presentation of average weather information for a given area.

Windy.com is a highly interactive weather map with a variety of overlays for their maps.

AirNow Air quality with an interactive map.

AQI Realtime air quality index data - a lot of data.

IQAir Air quality index measurements but only has data for general areas.

AccuWeather

Intellicast Weather

Intellicast Interactive Weather Map

National Weather Service

WeatherBug

The Weather Channel

CNN Weather

WeatherOnline

Weather Underground

NOAA Satellites and Information as of 2025, nothing is freely accessible.

NOAA - national forecast. Very good information very well presented.

NOAA Heat Map is a national map that shows a forecast "risk of heat-related impacts". The forecast shows daily risk for the coming week.

Zoom.earth - is not meant for predicting weather but shows various aspects of real-time weather on satellite maps

Earth shows global air, current, etc. systems. Useful if you know how to read wind and water currents.

Spaghetti Models aka Mike's Weather Page - has a bunch of prediction maps for large storms. Heavy duty meteorological stuff like sea surface temps, shear maps, jet stream patterns, wave heights, surge penetration, etc. If a hurricane is coming, this page will tell you more than you need to know about it.

Blitzortung Lightning Map This international map shows lightning strikes as they are picked up by various sensors throughout the world. The site advises that it not be used for serious purposes but it has a lot of serious capabilities.

World Air Quality IndexThis site maps out the air quality readings from public provided sensors all over the world. The data are collected and made available through the WAQI database.

OpenAQ This site collects air quality data from public air quality monitors and makes the data available for free.

Air Quality MapThis site maps out the U.S. air quality readings from. This map is provided by AirNow and reports the US Air Quality Index.

Old Farmer's Almanac I sometimes wonder if it's an old almanac for farmers or it's an almanac owned by an old farmer.

World Climate tells what the usual climate is like at any time and any place in the world.

The Tornado Project has pictures, information, tips on tornado safety, etc.

NOAA Photo Archive This is a great looking site of photos from the Weather Service. Easy to use and navigate. Includes the National Weather Service Historical Image Album, The National Marine Fisheries Services Historical Image Album, the Coast and Geodetic Survey Historical Album, the National Severe Storms Laboratory Collection, and the National Underseas Research Program Collection.

Weather 24 has the weather for various countries but excludes the US.

Free Accuweather Software puts a weather map on your desktop.

Foliage Network has maps of foliage color changes across the US.

Drought Monitor - a map of US graphically depicting current drought conditions.

Precipitation Map This is from the National Weather Service and shows a history of precipitation. You select the time interval and location.

Wind Current Map This is a global, animated map showing wind currents.

Sunsetwx is a site that tries to predict the best sunsets (for photo purposes).

Weatherstack API This article shows how to use a weather API on your Web site.

Weather Apps That Care About Your Privacy This article reviews a handful of apps that appear to protect your privacy. The article ultimately suggests using Web sites instead of apps especially to protect your location privacy.