Whether the weather

Two websites that do two jobs of lying to us. The weather predications are never right, but that's an angry rant for another time.

Accuweather and Weather.com have similar tools for people to use to get the "weather". One similarity is the use of straight-to-mobile updates, where forecasts and changes are sent to a person's cell/pda/whathaveyou routinely. Also, they both have fields where users can enter in their city name or zip code to get direct local readings. National weather is also listed on the main sites as well. Both offer video feeds, incase reading becomes too tedious.

Now, the differences. Accuweather is definitely the more content-driven weather site. There is significantly more text, news, etc. on their site then weather.com. You can also view a more indepth map that gives cold front, snow, rain tracking, and can zoom in on any point of the map.

Weather.com, on the other hand, follows the KISS method, and it's open, spacious design makes it incredibly user friendly. The site also links up with CNN.com, yahoo, and (naturally) the Weather channel, transcending other facets of media as well.

Still, Lewis Black said it best: when you want to know what the weather's like, stick you're hand out a window, and when you want to know what the temperature is, drive by a bank.