Weather forecasts

Correction, no longer drizzling - chucking it down ☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️

The rarely get the forcast right MawBe.
We went on holiday for 6 days and it was meant to be sunny or cloudy,rained 5 days and enough to flood the garden.

Us British ( dislike Brits, seems like an insult), and our weather. As my granddaughter says“ Nanny we live in Britain, what do you expect“.

I remember when you couldn't trust a weather forecast for more than half a day ahead. Now they are generally accurate for 5 days ahead. And the forecasters explain the charts when there is a doubt as to which way thing will go.
You can't be right in every little area all the time, but I find the local forecast is usually very helpful

We were predicted cloud but the sun is shining. I’m not complaining this time.

I use the met office app, it’s usually pretty good but you do need to check for updates.

I have the weather channel app on my phone, pretty good.

As a working farmer my husband gets desperate at this time of year when its hay and silage time. He keeps saying if weather forecasters were sued (yes I know, he goes in for exaggerations) every time they got it spectacularly wrong, they'd take care to be more accurate.
I tell him not to rely on them, but he continues to cut grass/hay every time they promise 3 days of dry weather ....
I don't know why he relies on them so loyally ...... but he does.

My last word on the weather - not that I was worried ☔️☔️

Mawbe that forecast shows a 13% chance of precipitation at 1100 and in varying degrees throughout the day was correct because you had rain ?.

I can’t see that’s an inaccurate forecast, cloud and light winds with a chance of rain seems about right.

I’m another who checks the forecast for percentages of rain. Himself prefers to look out of the window and look up to the sky. Strange behaviour.
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Maybe we underestimate just how complex weather forecasting is, especially for our (comparatively) tiny island in the Atlantic, affected by changes in wind speed/direction etc.

I paid attention to the forecast for Friday as I was looking after my baby grandson and had intended to walk into the village if it was dry.
The forecaster said that cloud and rain would affect the south east but they weren’t certain how far west it would spread.

That illustrates the problem they have doesn’t it? Here in Berkshire we could have stayed dry but the weather front obviously did migrate a bit further west.

On the whole, given the complexities involved I think they do pretty well.

I find ours are pretty accurate but I do tend to watch the sky myself! I see the weather coming from the west and depending on the strength of the wind I can usually guess when rain will arrive or not! Gives me time to get the washing in or put my gardening things away and prepare if needs be. My old age madness!!!! Mind you, it works!!!!

In the last year the weather forecasts have become atrociously in accurate.

On several days I have sat indoors while the rain pours continuously, thoroughly and for hours, looking at a weather forecast that tells me that the weather in my area is dry and sunny.

tanith

I can’t see that’s an inaccurate forecast, cloud and light winds with a chance of rain seems about right.

Just that the “chance” turned out to be 100% - wish Premium Bond odds were as good!

MawBe I guess you were unlucky to cop the lot ?

I do think the BBC online weather forecasts have got worse in the past year or three.

Didn’t they move away from using The Met Office - I’m wondering if this is the reason.

It used to be that you could clearly plan your dog walks around their more accurate local predictions of “sunny till 10 a.m” then “rain at 11” sort of thing.

I also used to like the satellite/overlay version so you could actually see weather approaching - but I can no longer find that on the BBC app

I think you could be right SSwimmer

I am sure you are right SSwimmer, they did move from the Met Office, but I have not found that any of the alternatives, including the Met Office, much better.

I think MawBe was very, very lucky. My vegetable garden would have loved some rain ?????????