Good weather forcast sites - There must be one somewhere.

[Mark Bowles]

Please tell, where is the best weather site?, if anyone knows then spread the word, we all need any help we can get.
I know rubbish ones, BBC top of the list.
Farmers weekly, close but not updated often enough.
Accuweather.com not too bad but tends to say rain all the time, maybe they are right!
Met office, plenty of updates, thats the problem, severe weather warnings a couple of hours before they come.
Any ideas anybody?
Please
Mark

[Broomcroft]

Hi Mark

I use the Met Office http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather....er.html.

and http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2469.

Both are excellent and both said dry as a bone over here today, which is was if you ignore one of the biggest downpours of the year and the flash floods!!!!

For a further outlook I use http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ ... ather.html

[andy simmons]

As far as the weather forcast go I look at several and try to find consensus. I think the met office is more accurate and for the current day the rain radar images help me decide how soon rain may be on the way or if lucky when it may be going to stop. I have just started using this metcheck site whis gives some longer range forecasts but haven't been using it long enough to really decide if it is any better. I believe it uses different data and models to the met office and therefotre the BBC as well.

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/HOME/

I have concluded that what we all want unfortunately doesn't exist!

[carole]

as you may know after my rant about the weather and making hay recently I have been looking for adecent forecast, at least one thats accurate most of the time and currently I would say that Metcheck do seem to be ahead of the rest.

Currently it says that we are getting two dry days in a row so having cut 16 acres today I hope they are right.

http://www.metcheck.com

[AlastairC]

Does it worry any one else that 99% of all politicians seem to accept that the forecasts for the next N years (enter any number that you like) are being predicted by the same group of people who can't get tommorrows weather right.
Or is there a difference between a meteorologist and a climatologist?

[Sylvia]

The only difference as far as I can see is that the meteorologist can be proved to be wrong almost immediately (and often just by looking out of the window) whereas the climatologists can go on spouting rubbish for as long as suits them because few of us will live long enough to prove them wrong. Global warming indeed ............