BBC weather app

[PhilH42]

I'm going to delete the bloody thing!

It has to be one of the most unreliable sources out there for dryness. I've learn't that if it says rain on any given day...it will 100% be raining, if it says just cloudy on any given day....it will rain at some point, if it says sunny on any given day it will probably rain. If you trust it any more than 24 hours in advance you're an idiot.

Today it had no mention of rain through the day (actually showing sun) right up until the point that in hammered it down with the Chim parked on the drive with the targa off....shout of *hit and useless *ast**ds follows, lunch thrown off lap and soaked....checked it again as soon as back indoors and bingo it shows rain for the next few hours

Still I reckon I managed a record time for targa and cover back on and a few lunch calories burned

[RobXjcoupe]

Well without stating the obvious have a look at the actual sky. It's really accurate when it's the weather directly above you lol

[Alan_D350]

RainToday is normally spot on for the coming hour, WUnderground (Weather Underground, uses local data from people's weather stations) is pretty good for rain forecasts over the coming day or two.
Also, you can use an app called Climendo to check which forecasts have historically been most accurate for your location, then get that one.
HTH

[PhilH42]

RobXjcoupe said:

Well without stating the obvious have a look at the actual sky. It's really accurate when it's the weather directly above you lol

Totally stating the obvious and I kicked my own dumb *rse

[PhilH42]

Alan_D350 said:

RainToday is normally spot on for the coming hour, WUnderground (Weather Underground, uses local data from people's weather stations) is pretty good for rain forecasts over the coming day or two.
Also, you can use an app called Climendo to check which forecasts have historically been most accurate for your location, then get that one.
HTH

Cheers, just downloaded the Climendo app....I like the certain, fairly certain thing....worth a shot.

[KKson]

XCWeather for me. My (ex) brother in law is a long distance paragliding champion and always uses it as his go to weather website.

[TV8]

If you look at the time based forecast or summary it is very bad relative to what happens.

If you load the 10 or 12 frame per day slow video forecast of the next 24-48 hours it is extremely accurate. If the blue cloud is coming it gets wet, if it isn't it does doesn't.

Even when the summary is predicting rain and unsettled, if the blue cloud is no where to be seen, no h20 from the sky!

[Byker28i]

RobXjcoupe said:

Well without stating the obvious have a look at the actual sky. It's really accurate when it's the weather directly above you lol

Ah but then you'd have to take the roof off

[jmorgan]

I use the rain radar web sites. About the only dead cert as you can see what is coming for a good few hours.

Don't even start me on the Met Office web site.