...to hope that the presentyation of the weather forecast should be helpful?

That should read "presentation"!

I think it has dumbed down. I like isobars and I understand what an anticyclone is.

Me too Absent bring back isobars!
The online met office stuff also dumbed down its basic weather stuff but you can dig about to see the more detailed pictures and marvel at the big low pressure areas coming at us from the Atlantic.

Nelliemoser I am not going to marvel at big low pressure areas coming at us from the Atlantic as it only encourages them.

Absent You will have to get used to totally new weather patterns when you move. I have no idea if NZ weather is as unpredictable as ours.
I am not going to look now as I have been on GN for far too long as it is today.

Nellie if anything it's more unpredictable in NZ. The wind can turn round in a moment. A warm wind from Queensland changes to an icy blast from Antarctica. Like us, they are surrounded by ocean.

When I lived in Manchester we never knew what the weather would bring if you watched the National forecast on bbc. The route the presenter took up and down the map often completely missed out the NW!! Hope its changed?

this is a meteorological web site from Norway which is almost reliable.

www.yr.no

Due to popular demand we've got our isobars back on the local forecast - which we need 'cos the area has got so big. Our area covers from Great Yarmouth across to Milton Keynes and Northampton down to Southend.

Wow, tried the Norwegian one and it knew my town!

Anther good one is XCWeather.co.uk

I don't know if it's just me, but they seem to keep changing the forecast. I'm sure they said in the last few days that the weather was going to be much more "springlike", whereas yesterday there were rumours of 80 mph winds and heavy rain next week.

You can find a different forecast between the BBC's TV and website. DD and SIL get very angry with this, as they run outdoor events and their livelihood depends on accurate forecasts for their potential audience.

Eloethan
Its the equinoxial gales coming a bit late but so is spring!
That site is fun! They even have localish web cams.

I tend to pick through the different forecast sites to get the one that gives the best weather.

Good idea, Nellie. Right now, as you probably know, it has started raining. Shame - now I won't be able to get out and do some of that weeding. And the rain will make more weeds grow. Can't win!

I can't understand why they feel the need to tell us what the weather has been like - I don't need to be told what it was like today I want to know what it will be like tomorrow!

Yup! I just went put to fetch the washing in when the bread maker finished and it was spotting with rain. The washing was pretty dry though just needs airing.

if you see white clouds they are empties going back to Manchester to be refilled.

deserving

D. LOL

I always use the Met office website - it has a useful surface pressure analysis chart for five days out and you can see across the North Atlantic so you can check what's coming. Handy when the garden needs watering!
Although they promised faithfully on P.M on Radio 4 sometime ago that they would stop telling a "weather story" and just give us regional forecasts, I obviously don't have the concentration to listen long enough for my part of the country!

" I just went put to fetch the washing in when the bread maker finished and it was spotting with rain. The washing was pretty dry though just needs airing. "

#domesticbliss

Warm bread and fresh sheets! A new Yankee candle fragrance perhaps?