Weather reporting

britain · 7 May 2012 at 19:47

Is it me, or is it usually incorrect?!

The wife , child and myself have basically arranged our bank holiday around the appalling weather in our area which was supposed to be with us all day....it's just started light raining now @ 19:40. According to the weather prediction it was to lash down all day!!!
If they don't really know then wouldn't it be better to simply say that?
Thoughts?

tres · 7 May 2012 at 19:50

Try a different model/forecast

I use Metcheck which is surprisingly accurate

and remember - trying to predict the weather is an incredible science, it's not as easy as watching the 6 o'clock news!

Haze · 7 May 2012 at 20:46

the BBC sucks a lot of the time, i went to go out the other day when it said it would be dry all day, and then it rained all day

badcompany · 7 May 2012 at 20:49

bbc / met office use junk data from climate change morons.

PiKe · 7 May 2012 at 20:50

It never used to be so inaccurate.

Maybe the weather has just become unpredictable?

Slackjaw190 · 7 May 2012 at 20:54

I don't know if this is true or not but I heard

'The weather forecast is correct 70% of the time, if you say tomorrows weather will be the same as todays you'll be correct 70% of the time'

Fuzz · 7 May 2012 at 21:15

The weather Pro app on my iPhone is usually spot on with the weather, so when it said 20% change of precipitation for Monday morning here, I geared myself up for a ride out on the pushbike..

Needless to say I was awoken this morning with it absolutely lashing it down.

and it's been pretty much off on rain all bloody day. ARRGHH

Back to work tomorrow, weekend a washout!

PiKe · 7 May 2012 at 21:34

Do people find weather stations that you can get are worth it? I know they can't really predict the weather per-se but they do show the trend.

Pawnless Endgame · 7 May 2012 at 21:40

I can echo the replies about the BBC's reporting. Always tends to be a little way off. I find the Accuweather Android widget to be a lot closer to the mark.