Best weather website / forecast?

[Ajax Bay]

Have already nominated Xcweather.co.uk (with many others). Think its ease of presentation on a phone is a major plus, with more detail available on a larger screen.

 

[Heisenberg71]

Amazing responses, as always. Thanks guys. I have certainly learnt some new sites that I will use in the future.
So all of my research and planning suggests riding the dales tomorrow could be an adventurous and not without risk but 'doable' plan for tomorrow.

Hawes looks like below. Notice laying snow on higher ground.

The weather looks like a little more snow tonight. A clear but cold morning with sunny spells. Then a load more snow in the afternoon.

With all of the above considered, potentially the window is early(ish) start from Hawes, hit Buttertubs first thing. U-turn and descend back to Hawes and onto Yockenthwaite leading to the foot of Kidstones. Climb up out of the valley and then pick up the back road looping backing to Hawes.

42 miles of great roads, two TDF climbs and 'doable' in a morning. Am I mad or would you risk it?

 

[Ajax Bay]

You're a lucky man to be so close to such terrain, but 8 degrees warmer down here . http://ridewithgps.com/users/279650/activities Do you feel lucky? Will there will be much ice around after tonight's precipitation (as forecast). Have that plan and look at the Met Office observations map before getting the porridge on in the morning.

 

[Heisenberg71]

You're a lucky man to be so close to such terrain, but 8 degrees warmer down here . http://ridewithgps.com/users/279650/activities Do you feel lucky? Will there will be much ice around after tonight's precipitation (as forecast). Have that plan and look at the Met Office observations map before getting the porridge on in the morning.

You're right, I am lucky. However as you say it's eight degrees warmer where you are. You offer good advice, thanks.

 

[kiriyama]

Iv ridden in worse and it's a mixture of fun and terror. I'm not that far from you (Holmfirth) and it's snowing now. Nothing serious but BBC weather (my preferred weather forecast as it seems very accurate for where I live) says it's going to be sub zero tomorrow morning so I'm expecting it to be very icy tomorrow. I'm tempted to take my cx bike out but might be a safer option to go sledging with the kids.

 

[Heisenberg71]

Snowing here in Wakefield, and laying.
Same on the webcam for Hawes

 

[Jenkins]

There's also WunderMap to get an idea of the current wind direction and temperatures.

www.wunderground.com/wundermap

 

[briantrumpet]

There's also WunderMap to get an idea of the current wind direction and temperatures.

www.wunderground.com/wundermap

I like that one. I've used their resource for historical weather data, but not for current conditions.

 

[biggs682]

Look outside for short range and up the road for longer range

 

[NorthernDave]

The basic rule of thumb is that if you can find three weather site / apps that all agree on the forecast you're doing well.
Find six that agree and it's great.

If you get into double figures and they prove to be accurate, then expect to see a unicorn while you're out on your ride...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I like that one. I've used their resource for historical weather data, but not for current conditions.

I used wundermap for years, I had it as my home page, but then they had an upgrade and I found it kept reverting to London and I stopped using it, its nice to see its still around.

 

[Arrowfoot]

Weather forecast providers data are typically sourced from the respective national weather forecast authority. BBC and everyone else gets its from the Met. The Norwegian site will either get it directly from the Met or thru a data aggregator. The difference is how the data is presented and how often it is updated. Since 2012, the BBC has moved to hourly revision for 48 hr segment for the UK and for 5,000 locations thru out the UK that can be pulled by entering the postcode for greater geographic proximity. A foreign site is unlikely to revise frequently or provide geographic granularity. Can you imagine the RAF relying on data from Norway to do an exercise in Scotland.

For those who are TL;Dr challenged - if you use a foreign site to read local weather .......................................................... So when in Rome...............

 

[Dogtrousers]

The BBC didn't do so well last night. Yr.No and wunderground.com were predicting snow in the early hours of today, the bbc no precipitation. I took the pessimistic view and trusted the majority non-bbc ones, which proved to be correct.

 

[NorthernDave]

Weather forecast providers data are typically sourced from the respective national weather forecast authority. BBC and everyone else gets its from the Met. The Norwegian site will either get it directly from the Met or thru a data aggregator. The difference is how the data is presented and how often it is updated. Since 2012, the BBC has moved to hourly revision for 48 hr segment for the UK and for 5,000 locations thru out the UK that can be pulled by entering the postcode for greater geographic proximity. A foreign site is unlikely to revise frequently or provide geographic granularity. Can you imagine the RAF relying on data from Norway to do an exercise in Scotland.

For those who are TL;Dr challenged - if you use a foreign site to read local weather .......................................................... So when in Rome...............

I don't argue with your reasoning, but the fact remains that (in my experience) the BBC / Met Office forecasts are far less reliable than yr.no

 

[subaqua]

http://earth.nullschool.net
In conjunction with
http://www.infomet.am.ub.es/metoffice/mosaic.html

And temperature data from the Met. Office

then can work out what's likely. A good geography teacher in secondary school taught us all about weather charts. The guys in work think I have some strange powers as I have saved a few crane lifts with my , " it will be a bit windy early on but by X it will be fine

met office raw data is rather good.