I've used weather channel for years, suddenly requests for Helenville WI return a Portugese

[31j20b3]

city called Fernao Ferro

Anyone had a similar thing happen to them.

I can choose other cities and it's fine. But Helenville WI is where my hobby farm is and I check it's weather all the time
Well I did until today, now that's impossible and I need to choose a different locale nearby

[dgauss]

1. I use www.wunderground.com

That seems to work with Helenville.

https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/wi/helenville

[31j20b3]

3. I use weather underground for current radar

I''ve never used it for 24 hour forecasts, is that really possible?

I need to figure that out.

[dgauss]

6. It has an hour by hour forecast

and the radar also has a past and future radar loop that I use a lot if I want to get an idea of when it's going to start raining. You can really zoom in and, especially using the past radar, get a pretty accurate idea of what's coming and when.

On edit, you can get a $10 annual subscription to get rid of ads, which I found worth it.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. i have used wu for years and also nws .:)

[House of Roberts]

2. I had to quit Weather.com in favor of Accuweather.

Accuweather uses 440mb of memory on its main page vs 1.2gb for Weather.com

Sometimes I can't get a second location on Weather.com to load, but it always loads my home zip code.

Accuweather is where I go to check tornado warnings on my phone when it alerts. It gives a text description of the warned cell and its predicted path.

[31j20b3]

4. I sleep 50 miles from my hobby farm, my issue is hourly forecasts for a day

It's mostly a waste of gasoline to drive 100 mile round trip if I'm sitting because of rain or conditions like mud or wet plants that mess with gardening

But I appreciate your commenting.

Green beans are one of my big things that I grow over 100 lbs a summer to donate to Veggies for Vets, If you walk thru dripping wet bean plants (from dew or rain) it spreads common funguses. Injured leaves readily get infected, die, and production collapses.

Waiting for the garden to dry is a very important, but it's a big drag on my day I like to know how to time my drive to give the beans time to dry.

People around me, especially elderly are very supportive of the beans I grow. I sell them cheap, and donate it all to vet organizations. WIthout the hourly precip probabilities from Weather Channel, I'll need to figure out a way to get hourly projections of rain and humidity so I can have a wild-ass-guess about working the beans...

[House of Roberts]

5. I used to do something similar to choose when to mow my ex's yard.

I'd leave my totally dry neighborhood and find it had just rained at her house, and the grass was too soaked to mow.
The Accuweather site has hourly conditions and projects farther out for free than Weather.com, but the radar only goes 1 and 1/2 hours ahead in the free mode. Weather.com does go about five hours on their radar, but more of their features are pay to play.
I hope you can determine which one will work for you.
Around here, we've been having a daily monsoon in the afternoons. I haven't done yard work since before the fourth weekend.

[31j20b3]

7. In southern WI, as the season progresses the southern lows move further north

In the past few weeks we have had an amazingly stable east-west line the has rain centered on it. Mayby 10--15 miles wide but maybe 250 miles from east to west. Once they set up they rain for most of the day.

June to early July is when we get tornadoes on similar tracks in late July the thunderstorms go up into the north woods

Then in Southern WI we have mostly dry days, and in late August (after mine and Bill Clinton's birthday) the storms start sinking south again.

As they say everywhere in the US, wait an hour and the weather will be different!