I watched Carol on breakfast this morning. Big area of rain clearing during the late morning maybe a bright interval late afternoon.
Wrong!!!! the rain cleared us before 4:30 am and now 10 am the sun is shining. By late afternoon the next lot of rain is expected.
She simply did not have the latest information. Am I being fussy to expect that by 6.15 that the information I could have from online radar at about 4:45 should be included in the forecast. By 8:15 she was still peddling the same erroneous information.
Have you tried the new met office web sites. Why would I want the pressure charts in black and white. Looks like something from my A level Geography circa 1968.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/surface-pressure/
weatheraction is the one. I get an (expensive) 45 day forecast and it has been consistently correct since I bought the sub in november. I am allowed to send it around my family so it works out cheap enough per person(x 5). July is going to be bad hence my forward planning re getting onions up, blight protection and so on. Celery in, my first time growing. More brassicas sown for any planter I can find and fertiliser to replace all that is washed away
Makes it very enabling ie going with the flow rather than trying to fight nature
Can't say I've had much of a problem with the Met Office. Most of the time their site is spot on. Although that SPC is a bit hard to read. The symbols are there but it's more intuitive in colour. I do like their temp range forecasts though. They give the most likely temps plus the range that it could actually be. Was very useful in spring. OK it might be predicted that it's going to be above 0C but the range says there's a chance of it being lower.
Luck Strawberry, pure luck. This is the Horse Latitudes. It can all completely change in the space of a week! One or two days with accuracy is about the best you can realistically hope for.
Met Office are predicting a horrible July also, but they're careful to say this is an "outlook", not a forecast. Still, they are meteorologists and we are not, so we've got act on what they say is likely.
Weather spot on here today, heavy rain high winds etc. The big shame is it's the IW pop festival and 70,000 people are camping in a mud bath and holding on to their tents to stop them blowing away, the traffic was backed up right into Portsmouth as they could not get the cars to the parking fields as the mud was up to their axles. The island has been gridlocked for 8 hours some people taking 3 hours to get home from work which is usually a 20 minute drive. I reckon the festival goers stuck in their cars are the lucky ones. They have already cleared the main big top stage because of high winds.
Some people are pleading for dry place to sleep through twitter and facebook, wish I could help the poor sods but they would take all night to get to my place.