These online weather services are getting awfully good.

For one thing — or, if nothing else — they can update in real time.

That’s the difference between checking the newspapers (for the young: those were thick compilations of thin, but wide and tall, sheets of paper with stuff printed on them like you read on the web) and looking out the window.

Is it going to snow?

Check the newspaper.

Is it going to snow?

Sure thing!