Tell me a decent one. The BBC often conflicts with the Met Office and usually both are inaccurate anyway. I don’t need to know the nearest cloud but accuracy within reason surely can’t be that difficult these days.
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Tell me a decent one. The BBC often conflicts with the Met Office and usually both are inaccurate anyway. I don’t need to know the nearest cloud but accuracy within reason surely can’t be that difficult these days.
Ventusky is pretty good. Otherwise The Weather Channel.
I use yr.no for forecast and meteoradar for rainfall radar.
windfinder.com and windy.com
Netweather's rainfall radar app is excellent, and free. It gives you a image (refreshed every 5 minutes) of any approaching rain.
I mostly use BBC but do check do use the Rain Alarm app to check for rain when going out on the bike. Good app.
I also use Windy.com
I was totally glued to it few weeks ago whilst stuck in the middle of the 'Medicaine' on Kefalonia.
It was very accurate and clear. - it told me it was blowing a gale and peeing down, when I looked outside, it was correct and the road was under a meter of water...
I use AccuWeather and found it pretty good all over the world...
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I tend to use the BBC app as it seems to be much more accurate than the one on my iPhone.
Look out of the window. Most of them couldn't prdict it goin g dark at night. Not fit for purpose.
One thing I'm interested in (and don't know the answer to) is which of them have their own data/modelling and which just buy it in and present it.
Look at the apps by meteoblue.
As an ex-flyer, I use WeatherPro. Very accurate and the rainfall radar in it is very good too. To get full functionality, you need to buy a premium subscription which is £8.99 a year.
Raintoday...another meteoblue powered tool is great too.
Alternatively, learn how to read a METAR/TAF (it’s not difficult) and download Aeroweather. If you select the nearest airfield to your location, you’ll get the weather as written by the met forecaster.
Claiming met apps and met forecasters are useless betrays a complete lack of understanding and I’m flabbergasted anyone thinks that the time it goes dark can’t accurately be predicted!
Dark Sky app is ok.
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Since it was bought by Apple, it no longer works on Android.Quote:
Originally Posted by damperman
YR.no is one of my favourites. But I find I need to look at 2 or 3 different apps and use a bit of intuition to get the greatest reliability.
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It’s not one I use myself, but I’ve seen other pilots use it. They also have an app.
https://www.windy.com/
Meteoblue. Pay the 1 euro a year to lose the ads. There isn’t a better app in my opinion
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Yup use the Dark Sky app. Works pretty well for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by damperman
Oh dear.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipK
As Christian said, for pilots (former in my case) weather and weather forecasts are hugely important. I haven't flown professionally since 2004 but still use AeroWeather Pro as it is far more accurate than other apps. It displays information in TAF/METAR terms but if these terms mean nothing to you don't worry, just select 'Decoded' and the explanation is in pain English.
Has anyone mentioned the Windy app?
I've seen people buy Apple because of Dark Sky not being on Android any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldoakknives
Instead, I use their web browser page (on Android) :hello:
At one point the met office had one of the top 50 world super computers. It’s definitely not perfect but I don’t see how other apps would compete
The BBC weather is now supplied by Météo-France I tend to use the Met office and Home and Dry for short term forecasts they do 2hr radar which is pretty good
Download WTForecast and thank me later.
Yeah, sadly you have to pay for their jokes. But still, funny from time to timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Jon Kenney
I do a lot of outdoor pursuits so I feel that I am particularly aware of the weather, and I have found that the BBC weather app is particularly unreliable and inaccurate. When that was my go-to app, I got caught out many times. I really can’t explain how it can be so poor when the other two apps I now use are almost always exactly correct (MetOffice / Accuweather). I still use it just to compare to the other two apps, for interest, and it remains largely inaccurate.
Another vote for Dark Sky here.
How do you mean? The App is free... or it is to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by thieuster
XC is my preferred one
I’m told it aggregates predictions from several Western Europe agencies
Also rely on it if sailing..
XC weather is what I use most. Much more accurate than BBC. When I was working our climbers used this a lot for the Highlands and IslandsQuote:
Originally Posted by GOAT
Tim
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In-app purchases.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon Kenney
The website gives a lot of info regarding the OP's question: http://weather.mailasail.com
Weawow. Have used it for a while now and it's good. Free, if you don't want to donate, and you have a choice of weather forecast providers including Dark Sky which I use. I wanted an app that showed not just rain probability but precipitation too as that's not important to me.
I use Weather Bug (as well as Dark Sky) it’s useful for 10 day forecasts.
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I use YoWindow and Met Office, they are pretty accurate.
I'd also like to know this. It's all very well having apps that display pretty pictures and have great user interfaces, but if the underlying data isn't accurate then it's pretty pointless.Quote:
Originally Posted by MakeColdplayHistory
It can't be cheap to collect the data (I know that some apps try to use crowdsourcing for this), or to analyse it (e.g. the vast sums that the Met Office have spent on supercomputers).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeteoGroup
Quite a big player for forecasting.
We may have our wires crossed. My question was in regard to WTForecast App. The only in-App purchases are Remove ads and Extra voices.Quote:
Originally Posted by thieuster
WeatherPro and darksky seem to be the best for me
Another good app is AccuWeather. It’s free too.
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I've been using accuweather too, found it too be ok but if sitting st work I do tend to double check it against bbc Scotland weather. Also windy Wilson if on FB