This is not an I-told-you-so thread, but checking the weather is virtually a ritual for me. I'm up by 5:00 AM. After I brush my teeth and pour a cup of coffee, I sit and surf some selected cable channels (movies and entertainment, not news.) The last channel I hit is called Weatherscan. It's a continous local Doppler covering Metro Boston for a radius of about 50 miles, with weather data, e.g. wind speed and direction, and forecasts updated cyclically over about every minute. Since it's usually dark out, and all our windows face east (and weather changes usually come in from the West), I can pretty readily plan what to wear and which bike to ride; pristine road, or all-weather studded-tire beater. I also record temp and windspeed/direction in my log.

It's gotten to be a game for me. if I ride the appropriate bike I win: road bike on clear roads and beater on wet or worse roads; vice versa and I lose. Before I took up riding daily year-round, riding in the rain, or not riding when dry was a loss.

Weatherscan is a most convenient and informative source. The Weather Channel used to show local Doppler with current conditions every 10 minutes as "Local on the Eights," but they seem to have abandoned that when I watch it in other cities, and I don't anymore here in Boston. For locals around Boston with Comcast, Weatherscan is channel 245.