BBC Weather Vs. Any Other

[kev747]

Originally Posted by James M

As for the difference with the TV and the website, the website inaccurate alot of the time (the five days forecasts) because I think it's just data from a computer with no forecaster input, whereas the TV has, I could be wrong but thats just the feeling I get. So anyway always stick with the BBC Tv weather forecasts.

Well as they are both by the BBC and the presenter always tells us now to check the website after each forecast there is no excuse whatsoever for not being exactly the same for that same day and its yet its often different.

My favourite was the last bank holiday Monday where Carol Kirkwood gave a completely different forecast to another BBC news forecast only 10 minutes apart.

[kev747]

Its hardly surprising I get confused. Tomorrow for Chesterfield. BBC website says sunshine and showers, accuweather website says cloud and no sun at all and metcheck says sun and no cloud at all between 10am and 4pm.

[Badllarma]

I use in the following order
Wind Map - Britain (good for wind speeds)
Metcheck
BBC which are to be honest pretty poor.

[Goosegogs]

I don't know if I can trust the BBC Weather website. Apparently, my location in Wales is 5 miles from the "nearest" weather station... ok, that sounds fair enough, however, the longitude and latitude for that weather station puts it in Northern Ireland. There are 2 places called Bangor, one in North Wales (the one I'm near), and the one over the Irish Sea in Northern Ireland.
I've just popped over to the BBC weather website, and they no longer display distance to the nearest weather station. As a regular listener to the weather after the midnight news on the radio, I hear frequently that Capel Curig is the wettest place in the UK that day... Capel Curig is a lot nearer to me than Bangor in Northern Ireland

[earthdragon64]

I've found that none of the TV weather forecasts are much use to be honest. I was on holiday on Lewis earlier this year, every evening the BBC said it would rain all over the Western Isles the next day, every day we had gorgeous sunshine.

I use the Mountain Weather Information Service website, MWIS: Mountain Weather Information Service, especially if I'm planning a walk. It covers the various mountain areas in Scotland, as well as Cumbria, Snowdonia and the English Peak District.

I've certainly found it to be more accurate than any of the others, at least the cairngorm national Park one is, I've not had experience of the others.

[Lerom]

As anyone visited these sites before?


Met Office: British Isles: Rainfall radar

Meteo Weather Meteox.co.uk - Weather - European rainfall radar





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[Jason Green]

Thanks, the first is a new one for Favourites

[shei111]

We are always promised rain on all forecasts but we never seem to get much, ive had to water the garden since may its that dry , I dont know how they can say nearly every nite (theres a possilble chance of a shower tomomrow), well where is the rain then? shei

[James M]

Originally Posted by shei111

We are always promised rain on all forecasts but we never seem to get much, ive had to water the garden since may its that dry , I dont know how they can say nearly every nite (theres a possilble chance of a shower tomomrow), well where is the rain then? shei

In terms of showers they might not be wrong as they can be very hit and miss, but when frontal systems cross the uk quite often they can die out before reaching the SE.

[Shadowstar]

Why is it with the ever increasing computing power and sophistication, all forecasts seem less accurate than years back? I'm afraid the long-term doom and gloom predictions of a long and bitterly cold winter (with heavy snowfalls etc) are meaningless - and laughable - when 5-day forecasts are way off the mark.
For a 24-48 hr local forecast I rely on my own station's readings and simply reading and interpreting the sky.

[Digit]

I live a couple of miles from the coast and the only reliable method is to look out of the window!
Mind you one local has a barometer he swears by, it's a length of string!

If it's damp... it's raining.
If it's dry... it's not raining.
If it's moving... it's windy.
If it isn't moving... it's calm.
If it's horizontal... it's very windy.
If you can't see it... it's dark!

Swears by it!

Roy.

[Chukie]

Most of the time I use the web for my weather reports the main one being metcheck seems quite good

[Jim Ford]

No competition - Chanel 5.

Well O.K., maybe Lara Lewington does has something to do with my choice!
;^)

Jim

[Jason Green]

^ LOL.

Try the new Weather Beta on BBC Weather | United Kingdom and in particular the slider, as it takes you graphically through the next few hours, then day-on-day up to five days ahead. It's the demonstration of overhead cloud and on-setting rain that I like about the BBC's weather, and this website version in very impressive in my mind!!!