Weather apps

[vulcan]

Anyone recommend any good weather apps I have BBC on me phone but it keeps changing the forecast for the day every time I look at it or are they all useless as each other?

 

[Jerry]

Weather Pro from Meteo...

 

[Chae1]

All pretty hopeless at moment in my opinion.

I'd great faith in wunderground until recently but last few weeks has been awful.

 

[Laggard]

Rain Alarm. It shows you where it has rained in the last 2 hours so that you can make your own prediction on the weather.

 

[mo!]

BBC is great. It is 100% wrong so you always know what the weather isn't going to do. The summary is my favourite. I'd it tells you sunny for the day then the detail will always have rain. A weather stone is more use.

 

[bovrill]

I like WindGuru. It's a sailing website, but I'm on the coast right near a big yachty town, so it might not work as well for other people!

 

[PSQ]

XC Weather is pretty good, with a 7 day forecast

Rain Today (paid app, not freebee or web version) has 5 minute resolution rain radar - excellent for spraying

My favourite is 'Windfinder Pro' again its a paid (1 time) app but has their hourly 'super forecast', and a page for live measurements from the nearest met office weather station, showing a graph of hourly wind trend and lots of other useful stats. You can also set your location to generate it's own forecast.

The problem I guess, is that all of these apps probably use the same data feed (GFS?) so although the interface changes, the data is usually identical : 'RI-RO'.

 

[llamedos]

 

[Clive]

Storm and weather underground are x2 I use most

 

[badger nadgers]

The summary is my favourite. I'd it tells you sunny for the day then the detail will always have rain.

Don't forget the map on the BBC Weather site which shows a third, also wrong, alternative.

 

[badger nadgers]

Web cam on cafe not far from my sheep, linked to from a weather enthusiast's web page where all the locals post road reports.

 

[H200GT]

WeatherPro and Ventusky here for day to day, Simon's premium for long range thoughts

 

[Brisel]

Weather Pro + the £7.99 subscription
Met Office has good radar maps now. Handy for spraying
BBC Weather

All 3 disagree = unsettled. Open a window.
All 3 agree = more certainty

 

[An Gof]

I like this one

https://www.yr.no/en

 

[windy_hollow]

They all have issues which are better or worse depending on the data they feed. Wunderground for example taps into user weather stations. If some of them go out of kilter the code will struggle. I tend to use 3-4 apps and ho for a sort of average . If 2 are pointing at roughly same weather pattern - good chance.

 

[Suckndiesel]

Use Weather pro and BBC weather app, usually go with what one is forecasting the best. Also have rain alarm

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

The BBC weather app seems to be pretty reliable . Except when it's wrong .

 

[Pilatus]

Seems to me , that there is very little consistency with any weather forecasts that one chooses to look at ,at the present time.