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Hi Neal and welcome to weather hell.
I use Met office ( hate their new update and website changes) and i use Weathercast -- both of these i use on a PC and not a phone. Unfortunately neither work that well and by all indications nothing does for the uk depending on where you live -- But i do find that by using two or so and checking long /medium and short forcast based over the surrounding areas you live it gets close enough to work with.
'Make Hay when the sun shines' comes to mind - get as much work in when the weathers going well and anticipate problems from Nov - April, by anticipate i mean consider a reduced 'essential' work load and if weather is workable add more to it. Personally i have found having full weeks booked in during erratic weather months creates a massive amount of stress --
The worst IMO is the wet summer when you should be hitting max capacity - but then again - i banked on a crap winter and have been studying 10 weeks part time -- and low and behold been the easiest winter recently - and lots of missed work.
Weather forccasts have been accurate around here last few weeks and you could have based work around that if needed
I used to have the met book marked on my mobile but I hate the new layout it's really hard to scan quickly to get an overview of the day or week now. I've told them so in their feedback box. Hopefully if enough people do they might change it back. It was great before but I've switched to BBC now.
ive sent them several feedback reports :) -- new style is awfull -- looks like theyve let some millenial media grad student loose -- its flashy rubbish over function
The rain radar on the Meteoradar app is much easier to read plus the next option lets you project it foward. This is another one to bookmark
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/will-it-rain-today/#?ta...
I use the BBC and accuweather apps but still get wet when they say its not going to rain and miss work when they say rain and its fine so now I just take the day as it comes.
I find the met office more accurate than the bbc. I also use rain today app on my iPhone.
I've always found the met office one pretty good and accurate........ if they can't get it right, who can? Like Dan says, they've gone and changed the layout which I'm not so keen on.... guess I'll get used to it and in a few months, think it's brilliant.
Ive always checked the BBC, local to my region. It isn't 100% but I don't think any are, given the geography of the UK. I set out the diary as I want it and push on in all but the worst of weathers. I actually found last summer's drought was the worst problem I've had in a few years, I'm normally prepared for whatever winter might bring.
Hi thanks for the replies everyone , I suppose Ill just take each days weather as it happens.
I am an authority on this subject :)
Either Dark Sky which charges a low subscription or
Arcus which is free & gives exactly the same results.
If either say that it will start raining in 30 mins for 20 mins it will be extremely accurate as they read the rain radar.
These are both for short term forecasts during the day & both have really nice widgets.
Another useful one is meteoradar. It has the usual rain radar animation but also a second page that projects the radar foward. So, for example if it's raining, it will give you a good idea of when the rain will stop or when expected rain will arrive.
For longer range yr.no is pretty good.
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