Weather forecasts

[desertrat]

There seems to be a wide variation in weather forecasts and accuracy on the Internet. Can anyone recommend an internet site that they find consistenty accurate for UK weather. Currently I find the Met Office one fairly good closely followed by the BBC.

[NoGood Boyo]

Best way to see if rain is on its way is the link that follows. Doesn't help with predicting sunshine, though because not all clouds produce rainfall. www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/radar/index.html#top

[Ewood27]

No forecast is going to be accurate more than 3 days ahead at most, but I find this one good

http://uk.weather.com/index.html

[Oneeyedvic]

I wondered whether to bring my motor bike in to work this morning - I am a fair weather rider. I wanted to make sure it would not rain. I used the bbc interactive site via Sky "red button" and found out it would be fine this afternoon.I then checked the local bbc weather at 7.30 am who said it would rain. At 7.45am the national forecast said it would be fine it this area. At 8.00am the local bbc weather (extended) said it would be fine. I brought the bike in. It is now 4.40pm and it hasn't rained yet - looks fine but fingers crossed. Also try www.weather.co.uk - I have checked locally and it seems it won't rain on Friday - fingers crossed as the bike is booked in for a service then.

[lockman]

Try http://www.onlineweather.com Its always been good enough for me

[Upforit]

I have a small program from here- http://www.singerscreations.com/ It allows you to have a satellite map as wallpaper which will automatically update. It also shows the temperature and atmospheric pressure, amongst other things. You can look at their forecast or use the conditions it reports to forcast for yourself. I find the desktop map very useful for looking at the the direction and prevalance of cloud.

[Upforit]

By the way, it is a free program, although you can donate if you find it useful.