Time for a change

[bobmac]

Weather forecasts.
The Windows weather app I use told me a 7.11 that the weather would be.........

'Day
Watch out for scattered rain showers. It'll be very cold with a high of only 7. Temperatures near freezing
Night
The skies will be clear. It'll be very cold with a low of 1. Temperatures near freezing'

If someone looked out the windows they would see it's snowing

What weather forecast do you use?

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Weather Channel

Used to use the Met Office but started to become really poor - BBC has also ditched them

 

[chellie]

This one https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=pws:ILYTHAMS2

 

[SammmeBee]

Meteoblue......

 

[brendy]

Meteoradar is fantastic for its rain predictions and has radar pictures showing current rain through to hourly or every few hours for the next week.

 

[Imurg]

None of them - they're all useless....

 

[patricks148]

This one https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=pws:ILYTHAMS2

this is what i use if playing anywhere other than Nairn. its pretty good for the likes of Tain and Dornoch as there are weather stations there linked to this.

 

[Foxholer]

AccuWeather works for me.

Unfortunately it's predicting showers during my round this afternoon!

 

[Region3]

I downloaded about a dozen of the free apps for iPhone and kept track of how good they were over a few weeks.

The one I ended up keeping is called WeatherPro.

 

[bobmac]

Thanks everyone, I'll give them a go

 

[BubbaP]

Just had a few flakes of snow here also!

Always liked the layout of this
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/forecast/Grantham

Felt it was pretty accurate, however a few not so goods lately

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Have both the Met Officer and BBC weather apps on the phone and rarely do they say the same thing

 

[SammmeBee]

Have both the Met Officer and BBC weather apps on the phone and rarely do they say the same thing

What do they say - the 2 worst weather sites on the planet that is?!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

What do they say - the 2 worst weather sites on the planet that is?!

BBC is fed by Met Office

 

[HomerJSimpson]

BBC is fed by Met Office

Run as two separate apps and I would suggest all weather apps take their information from the Met Officer surely

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Weather Channel

Used to use the Met Office but started to become really poor - BBC has also ditched them

BBC is fed by Met Office

Sorry LP, you got me all confused now

Which is it?

 

[SammmeBee]

BBC is fed by Met Office

They are both rubbish.....

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Sorry LP, you got me all confused now

Which is it?

Sorry the BBC have ditched the Met Office and will get their updates for Weather Channel when contract with Met Office runs out

 

[Hacker Khan]

Said it before and I'll say it again, most forecasters are pretty good in the short term, i.e. 24 hours. In our climate it can be difficult to predict down to golf course resolution where rain will fall anything longer than that. When people say forecasters are rubbish I can guarantee they are remembering the one or two times they get it badly wrong (as they all do in our UK climate due to our position on the globe) and forgetting the 98% of time they are spot on. The Met Office are as good as anyone for UK weather forecasts, they are a world renown forecasting organisation and they did not lose the BBC contract due to poor forecast accuracy.

I was not aware that the tender has now been awarded to The Weather Channel (got a link to that LP?), but whoever gets it will still have to pay the Met Office a lot of money to access their unrivaled number of observation data readings in the UK anyway.

The only genuinely awful one is The Daily Express.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Said it before and I'll say it again, most forecasters are pretty good in the short term, i.e. 24 hours. In our climate it can be difficult to predict down to golf course resolution where rain will fall anything longer than that. When people say forecasters are rubbish I can guarantee they are remembering the one or two times they get it badly wrong (as they all do in our UK climate due to our position on the globe) and forgetting the 98% of time they are spot on. The Met Office are as good as anyone for UK weather forecasts, they are a world renown forecasting organisation and they did not lose the BBC contract due to poor forecast accuracy

The only genuinely awful one is The Daily Express.

The app or the paper in general?