Good weather website

[dellzeqq]

I watch the weather forecasts for five days before the FNRttC, and send out e-mails to anything up to 130 people on the basis of what I see. None are right all the time, but Metcheck is the worst and the BBC slowest to pick up on changes. Boring as it might be the Met Office is the best of the bunch.

 

[srw]

AFAIK, the Met Office are the only people to run a model with small enough cells for British weather systems. These are peculiarly complex because of the number of influences over our weather. Most of the other sites run future models designed for large continental landmasses.

 

[srw]

<pedant alert> None is ...

Well it's a quiet night and I'm in a bolshy mood

Missing a full stop, TMN.

(Sauce for the goose, etc etc.)

 

[ianrauk]

I picked up on www.yr.no from another place, and strange as it might seem they are pretty accurate

Yup, I like this site also.
In fact Madam, I think it was one of your links I found it from.

 

[Demonclimber]

www.yr.no

Change the language to English (it's a norweigian site), put your place name in at the top and access all kinds of graphs and charts for hour to hour weather. Seems to be phenomanally accurate

 

[Leaway2]

 

[400bhp]

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
really useful to see what is actually happening and what is likely to happen over the next few hours.

It only seems to be backward looking?

 

[MontyVeda]

I have a glance out of my west facing kitchen window to get a gauge for the next hour or two.

I also glance at the Beeb weather and take it with a pinch of salt... I verify whatever they claim by looking out of my west facing window.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I picked up on www.yr.no from another place, and strange as it might seem they are pretty accurate

+1 for yr.no it is the one we usually use and seems pretty good.

 

[Davehateshills]

http://www.windfinder.com/

Find a station near you and go to the super forecast. It gives hour by hour and there is a mass of info available. Oh, the wind predictions are spot on, as you would expect.

 

[Sheepy1209]

http://www.windfinder.com/

Find a station near you and go to the super forecast. It gives hour by hour and there is a mass of info available. Oh, the wind predictions are spot on, as you would expect.

For Blackpool use the Airport - no buildings around so it's pretty accurate.

 

[VamP]

And there I was expecting to find out about a website that only forecasts good weather.

I'd pay good money for one of those...

 

[HLaB]

It only seems to be backward looking?

You can pay for forecasts but I prefer to make my own guess based on the last hour's weather radar (which is backwards looking )

 

[bluemint]

raintoday for seeing what's going on right now and what's heading my way.
BBC weather map for a few days in advance. I have a (android) Rainwatch app which seems to use the bbc info but you can zoom in to the regions. It tends to be quite pessimistic but quite accurate in the end.
Metcheck for wind direction and speed.

 

[Glenn]

http://www.wunderground.com/ gives local forecasts, my nearest station is 200yds away.