Post Code Weather Forecasts

[Amiguru]

I don't know whether this weather site has been mentioned on WAB before but I think it is the best as you type in your postcode and can get details for hour-by-hour or anything up to 10 days hence. Give it a try and see what you think
weather.co.uk - Index

[galanthus]

looks like a good site, tho am very depressed to note it's mostly all rain rain rain.

[agrumpycow]

Looks good. The Met Office and BBC Weather website offer postcode searches but these are only for 5 days. Trouble is with a 10 day forecast things tend to change so what it predicts for 7-10 days time will probably not be totally accurate come the day.

[Kayleigh]

Thanks for web site its now bookmarked. When is summer going to start

[Paul mabbott]

Yes, that looks interesting - certainly more detailed than the BBC one which is so vague as to be useless. The one I use is Metcheck.com - Global Weather Forecasts - [Updated on 30 June 2007 at 20:00] - Weather Feeds - Live Data - Long Range Weather Forecasts which has always been fairly reliable and does give you projections for a few hours at a time - good indiactions as to whether you should go out in the morning or afternoon! And it isn't plagued with adverts and has lots of background meteorology stuff for those who are interested ...

[galanthus]

Wow Paul, yours is pretty cool great animation and very informative. Have saved as a fave. At least there's some sunshine for us in Glamorgan next Thurs and Saturday by the look of it

[rlchew]

Hey, that looks really useful and will enable trip planning with some degree of certainty as to what the weather is going to be doing.

Thank you for posting .... I have saved for future reference.

By the way, it is going to rain for 4 days over me . I wish I hadn't looked after all.

Richard

[kshotton45]

The BBC weather site BBC - Weather Centre - World Weather as mentioned earlier by agc is a site worth following.
If you select 'Coast and sea', then 'Atlantic pressure chart', you can see the position of the various pressure areas and step through the next 4 days. Just lately it's been pretty depressing as low after low headed towards us!
If you follow the charts on a regular basis, you'll see how the forecast changes several times a day. The weather is a 'chaotic system' and hard to predict in advance. I was once told that the Met Office can predict it with their computers, to an 80% accuracy. But, if you say 'The weather tomorrow, will be the same as today', you will be correct 60% of the time!

Keith

[Kymba]

Thanks for the Links but am now really depressed as according to the site kent will have rain and scattered showers until 10th July

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Kymba

Thanks for the Links but am now really depressed as according to the site kent will have rain and scattered showers until 10th July

Of course there is one thing that's worse than raining buckets........hailing taxis
sorry, I couldn't help it

[Amiguru]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Yes, that looks interesting - certainly more detailed than the BBC one which is so vague as to be useless. The one I use is Metcheck.com - Global Weather Forecasts - [Updated on 30 June 2007 at 20:00] - Weather Feeds - Live Data - Long Range Weather Forecasts which has always been fairly reliable and does give you projections for a few hours at a time - good indiactions as to whether you should go out in the morning or afternoon! And it isn't plagued with adverts and has lots of background meteorology stuff for those who are interested ...

Yes, thanks for yours Paul - it will be interesting to run them in parallel for cross-checking

[marktench]

Are will going to get a summer this year?

[kshotton45]

Originally Posted by marktench

Are will going to get a summer this year?

Yes. I believe it's on a Sunday this year !

Keith.

[oseor]

Thanks very much for this link

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by Kymba

Thanks for the Links but am now really depressed as according to the site kent will have rain and scattered showers until 10th July

That's alright, I'm not going down ther until the 11th!

It does look rather dreary , doesn't it - especially in light of the last week or two of June!

[kshotton45]

Here's another site worth a look ................

TheWeatherOutlook (TWO) - UK and world wide weather forecasts and data


Keith

[svenrufus]

I've used this site quite a bit and it has reasonable accuracy in my experience, but obviously that begins to break down a bit on the more long range predictions. I'll be checking out the other sites too, thanks for those.

Incidentally, does anyone know a good place to check what the weather was actually like? I was out the other day and forgot to make notes on temperature before heading out surveying, and I can't track down accurate records of what actually occured.

Cheers
Sven

[Paul mabbott]

Used to be available on the Met Office website but I can't see any data on a quick scan. I'll see if I can find the url ..... later