Weather this weekend.....disagreement....!

Quoted message said:

For Cumbria:

BBC - Sunny
MetCheck - Sunny but a bit windy
MWIS - Potentially rainy
Weather.co.uk - Cloudy (Saturday) Drizzle (Sunday)

I suppose one of them must be right!

Sun tan lotion and a brolly should see you OK!

--
sandy saunders @ www.thewalkzone.co.uk
email: saunders.sandy at ntlworld.com

'Mountains or Mole Hills ... summiting still
brings the same excitement'

On 11 May 2005 09:35:08 -0700, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

For Cumbria:

BBC - Sunny
MetCheck - Sunny but a bit windy
MWIS - Potentially rainy
Weather.co.uk - Cloudy (Saturday) Drizzle (Sunday)

I suppose one of them must be right!

MWIS are often the gloomiest. However, in my experience, they are often
nearest the mark. And in terms of actual fell/mountain conditions, just
about no-one touches them. They are also honest enough to point out when
forecast confidence is low.

Having (implicitly) slated the Met Office along with the other usual
suspects, I will admit I find their rainfall radar animation extremely
useful on days when I am in a position to access their web site in time.
Knowing what is coming *behind* a particular front can be very helpful.

--
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Mail john rather than nospam...

Add this one to your list:
http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=20889&posts=1

The MWIS forecast is usually pretty reliable - but for the last 3
weekends they've got it totally wrong for where I've been, in each case
predicting much worse weather than materialised.

John Laird said:

Having (implicitly) slated the Met Office along with the other usual
suspects, I will admit I find their rainfall radar animation extremely
useful on days when I am in a position to access their web site in time.

That's the problem with the web-based forecasts - you never have access
when you need it! I like to use the text message service from the Met
Office, weathercall
http://www.metoffice.com/services/wxcall/mobile.html
but that's based on towns rather than mountains. But the weather in
the Brecon Beacons isn't necessarily the same as the weather in Brecon...
For Snowdonia it's even worse: Dolgellau and, say, the Glyderau are on
different planets as far as the weather goes. They do have Bangor in
the data base, but I'm not sure if that's Bangor in Wales or Bangor in
Northern Ireland.

Anybody come across a text message service for mountain ranges by any
chance?
--
Rudi Winter, Aberystwyth, Wales

On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:30:53 +0000 (UTC), [email hidden] (Rudi Winter)
wrote:

| John Laird <[email hidden]> wrote:
| > Having (implicitly) slated the Met Office along with the other usual
| > suspects, I will admit I find their rainfall radar animation extremely
| > useful on days when I am in a position to access their web site in time.
|
| That's the problem with the web-based forecasts - you never have access
| when you need it!

I love the satellite BBCi (press red) weather forecasts which include:
A forecaster telling you what will probably happen.
A 24hr forecast every 3 hours for the next day.
A 5 day forecast for each area of the country.
Continuously 365 days a year.

Freeview is nothing like as good.

When away from the TV I use wthr4
http://www.metoffice.com/corporate/pressoffice/2001/pr20011002.html

Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk>
On any Usenet newsgroup, truth is defined by the person or
group who shout longest and loudest.
It is not related to any reality. :-(

Dave Fawthrop said:

On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:30:53 +0000 (UTC), [email hidden] (Rudi Winter)
wrote:

| John Laird <[email hidden]> wrote:
| > Having (implicitly) slated the Met Office along with the other usual
| > suspects, I will admit I find their rainfall radar animation extremely
| > useful on days when I am in a position to access their web site in time.
|
| That's the problem with the web-based forecasts - you never have access
| when you need it!

I love the satellite BBCi (press red) weather forecasts which include:
A forecaster telling you what will probably happen.
A 24hr forecast every 3 hours for the next day.
A 5 day forecast for each area of the country.
Continuously 365 days a year.

Freeview is nothing like as good.

I'm fairly sure the Freeview pages carry the 3-hour and 5-day forecasts, but
not the forecaster. Maybe you're thinking of Teletext, which is pretty
dire...

--
I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong...

Mail john rather than nospam...

Dave Fawthrop said:

When away from the TV I use wthr4

I think they've just culled that. Weathercall mobile seems to be
much the same thing, except that you type wc <placename> rather
than wthr4 <placename>.
--
Rudi Winter, Aberystwyth, Wales

"The MWIS forecast is usually pretty reliable"

They all seem to agree now!

Rain won't get any further north than mid-Wales....about from being a
bit breezy on the tops should be a cracking weekend.