Metcheck

gbs

Oh dear! Metcheck has not been performing in recent days. Am I alone in not being able to receive 7 day forecasts?

What alternatives are reccommended?

redddraggon

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

Not as good, but works.

hugo15

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

kettrinboy

it doesnt work on the day forecasts either i,m wondering if the free service has stopped and now you have to pay for it, ive gone on to a free toolbar called "alot" thats got hourly updates and gives wind speeds and directions which is what us cyclists want to know.

topcattim

It will be a shame if the metcheck site really isn't available any more. I've found it really helpful.
As you probably already know the BBC weather forecast site allows you to do a postcode search and a 24 hour forecast as well as a 5 day forecast, but I've always found it less accurate than the metcheck one (although I understand that there are only really two or three sources of meteorological data, and I bet someone else will come on and say that they are working off the same source!)
The xcweather site looks functional - any views on how accurate it is?

hugo15

I find the XC Weather site to be pretty good. I used to use Metcheck but though it had gone down hill a bit in the last year or so and switched to XC Weather.

Ho hum

www.weatheronline.co.uk

XCITEYORKSHIRE

...which is a shame as it's my favourite becuase of how accurate it seems to be compared to BBC...

secretsqizz

Anything is better than these bunch of cowboys... http://uk.weather.com/weather/today-Cre ... earch=true

20% chance of precipitation... yu having a laff or what

de_sisti

Try www.weather.co.uk

Cumulonimbus

Another site here

http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/uk/home/wea ... ather.html

Radar also here, you can zoom in and out on local areas

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

vorsprung

Never found metcheck to be particularly accurate. It was always too optimistic about a nice sunny weekend. I heard that the guy behind the site had various troubles and I'm not surprised to see that it isn't working. I haven't used it for months.

Accuweather is pretty good. The metoffice is, well, the met office.
Also like xcweather

http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/forecas ... F&metric=1

topcattim

Metcheck seems to be working again, although loading a bit slower than previously.

FransJacques

"Never found metcheck to be particularly accurate. It was always too optimistic about a nice sunny weekend. I heard that the guy behind the site had various troubles and I'm not surprised to see that it isn't working. I haven't used it for months. "

Let me tell you a little secret, most of these sites use the same models - windguru, xcweather, metcheck. A combination or exclusive use of GFS or WRF, which are cheap and are both American. The met office use UM, a bit more pricey.

In the UK, the "free" GFS has predication cells at 50km resolution. As we know, over 50k you can have sun to rain and a difference of maybe a degree or 3 of temp.

I'm a sailor and GFS is pretty useless for the Solent, for example, because at 50 km, it doesn't take into account the many localized features that affect breeze (or effect breeze in the case of thermals.)

B1ghubba

gbs wrote:

Oh dear! Metcheck has not been performing in recent days. Am I alone in not being able to receive 7 day forecasts?

What alternatives are reccommended?

Best I have found is www.yr.no

http://www.yr.no

Flambes

If you can relate RADAR rain rates to a forecast, then there's probably no better 24 hour rain forecast than here:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/ ... eathermap/

Actual rain rates go into forecast rates as you animate.

The temperature and wind maps should also give you a good idea of what it'll feel like out on the road.