Where's the best (free) long range weather forecast to be found?

[mariner2]

I'm going golfing in the scottish borders June 13th for a week, and would like to see high pressure!

[Huderon]

Long range forecasts are tricky ... but this met office page has an explanation and a link to the seasonal forecast for Europe. Looks like lower than average rainfall and higher than average temperatures though.

[bathtub]

But even that is only a 'best guess'. The simple answer to the question is that there isn't a site, free or otherwise, that can provide a forecast that's better than chance. It's not possible given current knowledge to forecast more than 5 to 7 days ahead with an acceptable degree of accuracy.

[Buenchico]

As Bathtub indicates, irrespective of current and future advances in meteorology, it will never be possible to provide accurate forecasts more than a few days ahead. (That's a fact which can be proved by the mathematical techniques associated with chaos theory).

All that you'll ever be able to find out, for dates that far in advance, are the average weather conditions which prevail at that time of year.

See here for typical weather conditions for Edinburgh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides /results.shtml?tt=TT003780
and here for Oban:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides /results.shtml?tt=TT003800

For a day-by-day average temperatures (over the past 30 years) for June in Edinburgh, see here:
http://uk.weather.com/climate/annualClimo-Edin burgh-UKXX0052?month=6
For Dumfries, see here:
http://uk.weather.com/climate/annualClimo-Dumf ries-UKXX0360?month=6

Chris

[charityfundraiser]

A few of the major weather forecasters use different forecasting systems so it's worth checking a few and checking for severe weather conditions from any of them. If you're interested in the details take at this website <a href="http://www.longrangeweatherforecast.org
.uk">long
range weather forecast</a>. In a nutshell, some long range weather forecasters pay more attention to solar activity.

[charityfundraiser]

Sorry, try http://www.longrangeweatherforecast.org
.uk

[charityfundraiser]

I'm not having much luck here, I'll try again http://www.longrangeweatherforecast.org.uk