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As a photographer, I try to follow up weather when I'm out and about. As many people have reported, the met office is next to useless, even on the short term!
by buserror 11y ago
As a photographer, I try to follow up weather when I'm out and about. As many people have reported, the met office is next to useless, even on the short term!
One I've found works /wonder/ is the Norwegian weather service at http://www.yr.no/ http://www.yr.no/ .
I'm not kidding, these guys not only give pretty accurate forecast, but they over england and they provide it in neat meteograms that are quite precise and easily read.
Now, how to explain that yr.no can predict weather in the UK and the met office can't... Met office has FUDed the country with "Oh but it's difficult in the UK, we're and island blah blah" but clearly, that's bollocks.
- DanBC 11y agoWhy does the met office get international recognition for accurate forecasting if it's so useless? http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/accuracy/forecasts http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/accuracy/forecasts
- pbowyer 11y agoI don't know, but I second the recommendation for yr.no. As a Brit, I find the Met Office to be more inaccurate for 3-5 days ahead than yr.no. On the day itself the Met Office isn't bad, but I look at http://raintoday.co.uk http://raintoday.co.uk instead to time my trips out between showers. Perhaps it comes to timeframe, or vagueness.
- lotsofcows 11y agoMy anecdata is the exact opposite. I find the met office very accurate. One thing I have noticed is that the idiot glyphs they use don't tie into my expectations. I see a picture of the sun behind a cloud with a rain drop on it and I think "light showers". It actually means "40% chance of rain". A cloud with a rain drop and no sun still only means that there's a 50/50 chance of rain.