BBC Weather

[gettin2dizzy]

Two weekends ago: Forecast - Heavy rain - Real weather - Sunshine
Last weekend: Forecast - Heavy rain - Real weather - Sunshine
Today's forecast - Heavy rain - Real weather - Sunshine
Weekend's forecast - Heavy rain.....

:rolleyes:

I'm beginning to think they're all pessimists, or motorcycle riders trying to keep the roads free.

BBC Weather (http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1424)

[kwak zzr]

i don't bother with the weather forecast now they are usually wrong, outside now its sunny in walsall and the forecast is heavy rain?

[tigersaw]

We've got the full facilities of the met office at Exeter and London at our disposal, a pretty impressive met system of our own which fires lasers at clouds and other clever stuff, and whats pinned on the wall?
The BBC 5 day forecast.

[Pedro68]

The BBC 5 day forecast.

... which is a joke ... it changes every day ...

Now understandably, perhaps it changes because the "likely" forecast can become more accurate with each passing day. However, if they can't forecast 5 days ahead with at least SOME degree of accuracy, then why bother with a 5 day forecast?!

Bit like predicting the winners of the FA Cup, and then changing your selection once your original selection gets knocked out.

Far better off only looking a day or two ahead ... any further ahead and it all becomes fairly pointless.

[dizzyblonde]

nope Look North( our local BBC) gets it pretty much spot on......said there would be sunny spells with showers of rain and snow

I got sunny spells with showers of rain, hail and big flake snow.... Yorkshire has a good bloke doin weather

[muffles]

I got so annoyed with the BBC weather report a few months ago (last year maybe - can't quite remember) that I sent a complaint in. I actually got a reply by email, and they cc'd the MET office for their comments! And then they replied too! I can't remember what the answer was though, I think they gave some stats that the 5th day was only 40% accurate or something.

[Ed]

The 5 day forecast is just a joke, so inaccurate. But look at day 1 of the 5 day and compare with the 24 hour - and often it bearsno relation to it.

Best weather site is one admin gave me

www.accuweather.co.uk (http://www.accuweather.co.uk)

I'm going out 2mz and I don't care if it's raining as I can't stand being cooped up any longer. I'm going down the cafe at Quatt.

[ogden]

Last saturday it said it was going to rain, but we figured sod it and went out anyway. It poured down for about 25 minutes of the ride, but the rest was OK.

It's April in the British Isles. The weather's changeable. What on earth do you expect?

[Tim in Belgium]

A 5min period detailed forecast over the next 120 hrs for every square mile of the UK, is that too much to ask?

[muffles]

Last saturday it said it was going to rain, but we figured sod it and went out anyway. It poured down for about 25 minutes of the ride, but the rest was OK.

It's April in the British Isles. The weather's changeable. What on earth do you expect?

At the end of the day though, weather IS predictable. That's if you have the necessary measuring tools (which possibly don't exist yet) and are able to draw the correct conclusions from the measured data (again that may not exist fully yet). I'd just rather they admit they aren't up to accurately measuring the weather to that kind of detail yet!

[Defender]

This is the site I use:

http://uk.weather.com/weather/today-Leeds-UKXX0078

[G]

bbc is rubbish and never anywhere near accurate. The best is metcheck although only upto 3 days notice.

[ogden]

Metcheck and weather.com use the same data so they're basically the same forecast, different presentation.

I tend to use BBC (Met Office) and Weather.com (NOAA) and either average them, use the most pessimistic view, or use the most optimistic view, depending what I want out of it at the time ;)