[Closed] Best Weather Forecasting

http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/index.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0

I generally find this one to be quite good, much more accurate than met check anyway.

Only for mountain areas but mwis is pretty good imo.

Explore here

http://www.stronge.org.uk/index.html

I use the charts for longer range.

http://www.stronge.org.uk/charts.html

I combine these with the Met Office and Beeb. Works well for me 🙂

Paul

We commission forecasts off the met office & they're usually good but we only look at 24 hrs ahead & for a specific location
Where the problems arise is when the weather is patchy or changeable [bit like now] it's not possible to be accurate when deciding where the edge of a particular piece of weather is going to be & you can get one place that conforms to the forecast & another place 10 miles away that doesn't - hence all the winging about the forecasters getting it wrong

FWIW - the beeb will take a slightly more pessimistic view than the met office usually does

Over the years, I'v found MWIS to be the best, but it's only for the mountain areas so might not be appropriate for you. Other than that, I use metcheck and back it up by looking at the synoptic charts. These are useful for showing how fast the weather patterns are moving and threrfore how changeable it will be.

Where are you off to?

The BBC forecasters are met office employees...

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this is pretty reliable

I tend to use Metcheck which seems as reliable as any other source.
Sometimes I look out the window as well and see what it's doing.

BBC online 5 day forecast is awful (and often contradicts the television weather broadcast).
On the web I use Yahoo's weather service, I've found it to be accurate abroad as well as in the UK.

I find metcheck to be a complete waste of time. Why do they claim to know what the weather will be doing at a specific time, in a specific location, a week ahead? They can't even get it right for 3 hours ahead.

I tend to use the Met office - for some odd reason, the BBC weather doesn't always tally, even though they use the same information.

Met office site - use the region and location specific boxes on the left. Snapshot is pretty unreliable, but if you look at the area you want for a couple of days you can see the trend. Combine this with MWIS if you are in the coverage area and you'll get a good overall view

Same as above, usually a combo of Metoffice, BBC and MWIS as I'm generally heading off to the hills doing one activity or another.

Metcheck can take a flying f"(£. they're a bunch charlatans.

The most accurate forecast is

'the weather today is likely to be what it was yesterday'

Apart from the obvious synoptics, I have been using the mobile version of rainfall radar video.

[url] http://www.meteox.nl/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur [/url]

http://www.meteox.nl/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur

Stick it on your phone and check it while you are out, It shows a 3 hour loop which is really useful. When a warm front etc is approaching close, you can pretty much predict what time rain will get you within about ten minutes.

mwis, if your area isn't covered (unless it's wales or outer hebrides) then it's probably not worth riding 😉

XC weather - good for wind speeds also (if your into sailing, windsurfing, kite surfing etc)