Golf and the Metro Weather Radar

Planning a day on the course and checking the weather are two things that go hand in hand. Lightning and golfers are two things that should not go hand in hand. If you live in South Florida during the summer time, you know that one minute the skies can be clear, minutes later a hail storm can pass by, and after that it could be fine for the rest of the day.

I find the best tool to see up to the minute weather for any specific neighborhood is to visit Weather Underground before every round of golf. It literally can save you. Not only can you get a bird's eye view to pin point any rain clouds, but the radar will even point an arrow in the direction that the rain clouds are moving.

I find that when I look behind the counter at the pro shops I find some of them already looking at some sort of radar image. My opinion is that the best site to see the most detailed weather information is the Weather Underground because it offers so many ways to see the weather. From up to the minute lightning strikes to a way to view amateur personal weather stations in every neighborhood.

If you look closely at the the photo above, the little squares represent lightning strikes with in the past 20 minutes. If you were to zoom in at this time you would be able to see arrows that point the direction of the moving clouds.

Give it a try the next time you go out for a round.