
I recommend RadarScope with the Tier 1 subscription. They will text/email you any new watches/warnings issued for whatever area you select. I'd also recommend signing up for the NWS interactive alerts. Here are two sites with everything you would need for TAFs/METARs The Aviation Weather Bible, published by The FAA which has almost everything about the dynamics of weather.
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Here is a guide for pilots on all the NWS products available and how to use them. They issue watches and warnings well in advance of any potentially severe conditions and offer many resources. They have sites all over the CONUS and will be your regional experts. Before take-off, look over the local weather from the National Weather Service and read over their TAFs and discussions look over satellite and radar for any systems upstream of your location that is coming your way.

Understanding low/high-pressure systems and what type of hazards are associated with each, understanding and reading METARs and TAFs, encode/decode a PIREP, turbulence, and icing. Knowing basic meteorology should be included in any pilot program and should be the first thing a pilot looks at before planning a flight. Some tools to determine this are Surface Charts, GOES Imagery, and Prog Charts - commonly all found in the Imagery tab in ForeFlight. Can help you make a better go/no-go decision. Those will tell you if what weather you see right now is likely to change soon, or maybe not anytime soon at all. Is it an easterly wind? Perhaps a ridge has built in over the Atlantic. For example, is it foggy out? Maybe there's a stationary front over you. Zoom out and look at the synoptic scale (aka multi-state-view-level) weather for an understanding of why your local/mesoscale weather is what it is.

I have no idea why this model isn't more widely used by pilots in flight training - it's exactly the timeframe that flights in a local area <3hrs would need to get a better weather picture. Basically a forecast of what the RADAR might look like.

I primarily use Pivotal for my forecasts, but any of those will work just fine.
