http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Is Weather forecast quality getting much worse? en Sun, 31 May 2026 20:10:56 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225671 Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:34:40 +0000 paddyirish 225671@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Rosie</p> <p>Know that one well, and not that exaggerated - a lot of the west coast gets 8m of rain a year. As comparison Edinburgh gets about 0.6m and Glasgow just over 1. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225649 Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:01:12 +0000 minus six 225649@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i've been using yr.no since 2006</p> <p>its a wee bit more pessimistic with precipitation forecasts than the bbc are</p> <p>yr.no wind forecast is very accurate, which helps with FRB decisions</p> <p><a href="http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/hour_by_hour.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/hour_by_hour.html</a></p> <p>also mobile site, which has a 7 day view, click on a single day to expand</p> <p><a href="https://www.yr.no/en/graph/daily/2-2650225/United%20Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/Edinburgh" rel="nofollow">https://www.yr.no/en/graph/daily/2-2650225/United%20Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/Edinburgh</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225645 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:40:24 +0000 Rosie 225645@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ paddyirish</p> <p>The famous poem about New Zealand's West Coast:-</p> <p>t rained and rained and rained and rained,<br /> The average fall was well maintained,<br /> And when the tracks were simply bogs<br /> It started raining cats and dogs.</p> <p>After a drought of half an hour<br /> we had a most refreshing shower,<br /> then the most curious thing of all:<br /> a gentle rain began to fall.</p> <p>Next day was also fairly dry<br /> save for the deluge from the sky<br /> which wet the party to the skin:<br /> and after that, the rain set in. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225632 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:12:07 +0000 paddyirish 225632@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@edd1e_h - like it</p> <p>Like in Taranaki region in New Zealand. West coast, dominated by a spectacular 8000ft volcano. Forecasting was easy.</p> <p>"If you can see the mountain, it's going to rain, if you can't see the mountain, it's raining" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225631 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:43:44 +0000 neddie 225631@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Today's forecast:</p> <p>It will rain. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225629 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:53:51 +0000 jdanielp 225629@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I use the BBC phone app and website, which I find to be generally quite accurate, and also have a free app called Rain Alarm which provides alerts of rain in the vicinity (distance, intensity and area) which sometimes manages to warn me about rain that the BBC has failed to acknowledge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225627 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:30:52 +0000 wingpig 225627@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"...really fine light rain..."</em></blockquote></p> <p>It's possibly not considered rain when you're inside a cloud at ground level. There was some of that a few weeks back when I'd been planning to cycle to Livingston after work (through a projected rainfall estimate of 0.10-0.19mm), but got so damp after two streets that I turned round and parked in Waverley. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225625 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:20:22 +0000 sallyhinch 225625@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>None of the weather apps (including raintoday) seem to recognise really fine light rain as rain. Unfortunately in my experience that's the stuff that gets you wettest of all </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225621 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:12:31 +0000 cc 225621@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I check wunderground.com, the met office and yr.no. </p> <p>As a bonus, if you click "Change Station" on wunderground.com you get a wee map of temperatures round the city, as measured by various personal weather stations. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225582 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:29:41 +0000 neddie 225582@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I blame all the cyclists causing congestion and hence global warming.</p> <p>&lt;/EEN mentality&gt; </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225578 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:15:37 +0000 chrisfl 225578@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I tend to use <a href="http://forcast.io">http://forcast.io</a> It's key feature is using the metoffice rain radar system to produce a forcast for the next hour. This is usually spot on. </p> <p>I also look at metoffice and <a href="http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/hour_by_hour.html">yr.no</a> the Norwegian Met. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225573 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:57:30 +0000 crowriver 225573@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye yesterday was a bit out. Forecast kept changing too! Light rain in afternoon was earlier and heavier than predicted, then heavy rain much much later than originally predicted, by which time forecast had been revised to dry but overcast.</p> <p>It's really just educated guesswork, isn't it? If you want to know what the weather's doing, look out of the window... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225569 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:06:30 +0000 wingpig 225569@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I sometimes use MetCheck if I want more detail about the expected rainfall than the BBC's four-level rainblob indicator supplies. It suggested that the rain around Falkirk yesterday would only be light, but it turned out to be much heavier much earlier and everyone ran into the café at the Kelpies. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16652#post-225567 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:00:06 +0000 paddyirish 225567@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Never trusted the BBC but felt that the Met office Forecast used to be reasonably accurate, but in the last 12 months or so, I've found it was way out. Yesterday was forecast to be &lt;5% chance of rain, so left washing out overnight, to find it hardly let up all day. Again this morning &lt;5% chance and got two soakings on the ride in.</p> <p>What does everyone else use and is there something more accurate out there? </p>