BBC Weather & the Met Office...

[Polar Bear]

They've got at least two supercomputers. 

I've touched one of them...

The other one does not yet have a Tenuous Claim to Fame. 

Surely it's tenuous claim to fame is that it has not been touched by Jaded?   

[Jaded]

 

[Polar Bear]

  

[andyoxon]

And Meteogroup get their weather data for the UK from the Met-office ...

Ha, so they do.  If said data is processed using the same 'models', perhaps it is a 'synch' update thing.

[Jaded]

Or the Met Office do more detailed work on the data, that costs more...

[Canardly]

I think that they both agree that the weather is going to be bloody awful this week end. Must be a bank holiday or something.

[andyoxon]

Earlier this am the BBC forecast rain all day here, whereas MetO had cloudy, no rain.  No rain at all yet @ 11.30, and BBC has changed to reflect the MO forecast. 

So possibly a lag thing; I'll probably side line BBC weather in future in favour of MetO.

[orienteer]

I'm using http://metoffice.gov.uk/ rather than the BBC now.

[andyoxon]

Thread resurrection

Met office is using 'new data' apparently.  This Sat 20th (Oxfordshire) MetOff pm is showing light cloud symbols with 40-50% chance of rain.  BBC shows rain all afternoon 40-50%, Ventusky show a big band of rain on radar forecast coming over on Sat pm...   Oh well, we'll see.

[FifeingEejit]

You can see the met office model on ventusky.

Alongside ICON and ECMWF my conclusion is they all vary wildly and I'm going to get wet at somepoint.

[andyoxon]

Well spotted, MetOffice model also apparently on Windy as "UKV".

edit MO now showing rain symbols 50-70% on Sat pm (here).

[Beardy]

The whole point of having access to a wide variety of weather forecasts via the internet is so,you can look around until you find one you like for the day in question.

[Polar Bear]

I have long since abandoned the BBC forecast.  It is so vague and unreliable imo.

I use the Met Office but also the Norwegian service, Yr.  I have apps for both on my phone.  Between them they seem to get it pretty accurate.

[Peter]

I think it's more a case of living where the weather is reliable.  Here in Manchesterford, the BBC forecasts a likelihood of rain almost every day.  It's VERY accurate.