Weather Forecasts

[gbs]

Until now I have relied upon Metcheck for week by week planning - the 7 day forecast was v useful. However the site seems to be increasngly unavailable.

What alternatives can you propose please?

 

[Glow worm]

I use the met office site for general forecasts as well as their rain radar Here
If I need to know if it's going to rain in the next hour or so, I found a Dutch rain radar that lets you zoom down to a very local level. I came across it last winter when we were getting bands of snow from the east and the UK radar stops just beyond Lowestoft which was useless! Dutch Radar Here

 

[ianrauk]

The BBC Weather website and www.weather.co.uk

 

[summerdays]

Or another radar site is raintoday... http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ shows the same radar images.

 

[buddha]

xcweather.co.uk is very similar to metcheck - except that it's reasonably accurate and works!

 

[albion]

I discovered this one earlier for hourly mm rain measure.

http://www.yr.no/pla...our_by_hour.html

I also use this one for planning ahead for a longer ride.

http://uk.weather.co...eshead-UKXX0060

 

[gbs]

Goodbye everybody. If metcheck is correct we will not survive the night in Fulham; -200C is forecast

 

[on the road]

That's nothing, -233C here

 

[darth vadar]

Why do bad weather forecasts always turn out to be right ?

 

[vickster]

They're all pretty awful, the BBC used to be utter cack but seems to be better - well at least for the next 4 hours, forget it long term!

 

[Matty]

That's why I like the previously mentioned www.raintoday.co.uk and www.xcweather.co.uk, rather than forecasting they show you what's just happened - you do the forecast bit.

raintoday always says it's raining, xcweather always says headwind.

 

[growingvegetables]

TWO - the Weather Outlook

Used to be bloody good when I still had an allotment? And I still use it for planning longer trips.

 

[2Loose]

That's why I like the previously mentioned www.raintoday.co.uk and www.xcweather.co.uk, rather than forecasting they show you what's just happened - you do the forecast bit.

raintoday always says it's raining, xcweather always says headwind.

I wonder how they make it so accurate...

 

[youngoldbloke]

Amazes me how they can be so different - presumably they are interpreting the same data? I use XC - tends to be optimistic for weather- but Wind Observation Map good for wind direction and strength, BBC - often pretty accurate, Met office - useful rain radar, Rain Today - very good, but limited forecast time. Just checked TWO - new to me - to be told there should be 85% cloud cover here - actually there isn't a cloud in the clear blue sky!

 

[jay clock]

Metcheck is presumably having less attention from the guy who owns it since he is now otherwise engaged.... http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/y...boy-internet/story-12365826-detail/story.html