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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 <5% chance of rain, so left washing out overnight, to find it hardly let up all day. Again this morning <5% chance and got two soakings on the ride in.
What does everyone else use and is there something more accurate out there?
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.
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.
It's really just educated guesswork, isn't it? If you want to know what the weather's doing, look out of the window...
I tend to use http://forcast.io It's key feature is using the metoffice rain radar system to produce a forcast for the next hour. This is usually spot on.
I also look at metoffice and yr.no the Norwegian Met.
I blame all the cyclists causing congestion and hence global warming.
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I check wunderground.com, the met office and yr.no.
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.
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
"...really fine light rain..."
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.
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.
Today's forecast:
It will rain.
@edd1e_h - like it
Like in Taranaki region in New Zealand. West coast, dominated by a spectacular 8000ft volcano. Forecasting was easy.
"If you can see the mountain, it's going to rain, if you can't see the mountain, it's raining"
@ paddyirish
The famous poem about New Zealand's West Coast:-
t rained and rained and rained and rained,
The average fall was well maintained,
And when the tracks were simply bogs
It started raining cats and dogs.
After a drought of half an hour
we had a most refreshing shower,
then the most curious thing of all:
a gentle rain began to fall.
Next day was also fairly dry
save for the deluge from the sky
which wet the party to the skin:
and after that, the rain set in.
i've been using yr.no since 2006
its a wee bit more pessimistic with precipitation forecasts than the bbc are
yr.no wind forecast is very accurate, which helps with FRB decisions
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/hour_by_hour.html
also mobile site, which has a 7 day view, click on a single day to expand
https://www.yr.no/en/graph/daily/2-2650225/United%20Kingdom/Scotland/Edinburgh/Edinburgh
@Rosie
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.
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