BBC Weather forecast - always breezy ?

[wozzizname]

Now, this may just be me, but since the BBC changed from using the Met Office, virtually every day the forecast is 'breezy'. Smoke rises straight up, and it's 'breezy', tiles blowing off the roof - yup, still 'breezy'.

Is it the same everywhere ?

 

[CircleFaust]

i thought they still used the met office, it's just the met office is it's own company now?

 

[Burnsy2023]

i thought they still used the met office, it's just the met office is it's own company now?

The Met Office is still civil service but the BBC moved weather data supplier to a commercial company recently.

 

[joey1211]

Just clicked through two weeks worth of forecast here. Everyday is a breezy day!

 

[VincentHanna]

Do you live near the coast?

 

[cainer]

i ditched the BBC weather site years ago for XCweather

 

[darael]

I've got checked every day up to and including the 3rd of May and every single day has "breezy" somewhere in the description. I'd never noticed this before.

 

[valve90210]

Yep, breezy on every single day in Maidstone!!

 

[Rroff]

It is occasionally punctuated with "light wind" here but almost every entry through the day and almost every day its "breezy" LOL.

 

[UTmaniac]

Meteo group took over BBC weather from the Met Office and the forecasts are no where near as reliable for around Southampton.

I've been mainly using Weather Underground and Dark Skies for the last year or so, using XCWeather for wind forecast. But recently I installed the Met Office app on my tablet, might end up installing it on the mobile too.

 

[Junglist]

Do you live near the coast?

I don't know why but that really made me chuckle.

 

[DXP55]

Yep - just checked and sure enough -Breezy !! 8mph but I call that windy and coat weather.

 

[GravyMonster]

Today is 'light winds' where I am - but that's an exaggeration as there's pretty much no wind at all. Then the next two weeks are 'breezy'...

The obvious conclusion here is that the BBC cutbacks have raised the ambient pressure in the UK meaning more wind.

 

[Dan103]

must a be a slow breezy day...

 

[doodah]

Think it's just the UK, the wind/a breeze is always ruining things (I hate both passionately).

 

[joey1211]

The outlook today for my postcode is drizzle and breezy. Here's the hour by hour breakdown

How does that work then?

 

[steve45]

Yeah I too gave up on BBC weather since MetOffice stopped doing them. SO inaccurate its laughable, it was just the other week we had big dark clouds all overcast and it was blowing a gale outside, those metal construction fences getting blown down and building materials all over the place, 11 mph with light cloud and sunny spells according to BBC, where as Accuweather on my phone showed a more realistic 46mph wind with dark heavy cloud and a 54% chance of rain.

I tend to use the Accuweather that comes on my phone these days, its not perfect but it pretty damn good, the minutecast is surprisingly accurate, but then i guess short term(out to ~90min) forecasting will always be much more accurate than predicting the next day or beyond.

 

[sprite1275]

I just use met office as its pretty much right most of the time. BBC forecast is pants.

 

[Russinating]

Haha. Breezy every day until 13th here in Bristol too. Though the wind is at least 10kts every day tbf.

 

[Bunka]

Accuweather actually does what it says on the tin, it's accurate.