Best Weather App

Anonymous

martingeraghty wrote:

I find the Weather Channel iPhone app to be the most reliable.

I found this to be the most UNreliable weather app. I moved onto the BBC weather app and its a lot better.

Its a shame cos the interface is pretty good on the weather channels but it kept locking up and giving out of date weather.

bompington

In my experience / prejudice (i.e. no solid evidence, just the way it's seemed to me over the years) Met office forecasts are the most reliable. But the Met office android app is unreliable, slow and has a horrible clunky interface, so I've given up on that - I'm currently using the Wunderground app, it's really good (especially, as mentioned above, the crowdsourced obs) apart from the fact that it's not sufficiently localised, something that's quite important round here. For example, its forecast for Glenshee (30 miles from here as the crow flies, but 2000ft higher) generally suggests the same temps as at Dundee - when there's usually a 4-6º difference.

bianchimoon

xcweather.com, fairly reliable and give the all important windspeed / direction

Anonymous

bianchimoon wrote:

xcweather.com, fairly reliable and give the all important windspeed / direction

Is that so you know which Strava segments to go for that day?

germcevoy

Wunderground. Conects with local weather stations for current conditions. Great for wind speed and direction.

surrey_commuter

martingeraghty wrote:

I find the Weather Channel iPhone app to be the most reliable.

also on Android... I find the hourly forecast to be very accurate

bianchimoon

Maglia Rosa wrote:

bianchimoon wrote:

xcweather.com, fairly reliable and give the all important windspeed / direction

Is that so you know which Strava segments to go for that day?

shhh. people may be listening, pointless round here unless its 30mph plus winds, they've all cottoned on

lostboysaint

Weatherpro is one of the more accurate because it uses the most sources of forecasting information before then assessing what they should be putting out.

WeatherXC relies on one model (GFS) which is also one of the least accurate. The same can be said for BigSalty and most weather apps.

BBC Weather certainly used to predominantly use the MetOffice data but whether that will change now that the relationship has gone to rat-shit who knows?

Windguru is one for the coastal boys and that can be either very accurate (pick your favourite weather data source from those available) or piss poor if you've only got GFS to rely on. The good thing with this one is that you very quickly understand which version of the published forecasts work for your locale. In my case it's the WRF forecast which is very, very accurate in all aspects except windspeed in a SW - which always needs a few knots added onto it, because of local effects.

You pays your money (or not, most of them are free) and takes your choice!

meanredspider

I'm another Wunderground fan - gives you great info on what the weather is doing right near you right now - perfect when wondering what to wear in the morning. It is also great to see how the weather is near you (Thursday morning it was 0C with me and 7C 50 miles away. The BBC doesn't give you that level of granularity.

g00se

I like the rain alarm pro app. I use metoffice and google's weather for actual forecasts, but with this app, you can set alarms for different rain intensities and coverage at different ranges - and set vibration signals for these. So you can 'feel' an alarm in your back pocket as you ride.

meanredspider

But what do you do with that rain information when you're riding? Turn and head for home? Put your rain jacket on?

Once I'm out on the bike, that's it - I'm not interested in weather forecasts. If it starts raining, I know it because I can see and feel it.

xcalibre

Use yr.no for weather..
Gives the best results and most correct..
Also foreca.com is good

COVEC

Get Aero Weather (Lite is free, Pro a couple of quid). It will pull the METARS (actual current conditions) and the TAF (forecast weather) for any airfield you choose. The current conditions are reported and updated hourly, the forecast is very good out to 6 hours and pretty good out to 18 hours.

It will give accurate wind speed and cloud cover. They are for the use of aircrew for planning purposes, so will be sound.

If you select a variety of airfields in the vicinity of your planned ride, you will get a good feel of the general weather in the area.

stretchy

COVEC wrote:

Get Aero Weather

How many watts will i save?

pblakeney

g00se wrote:

I like the rain alarm pro app. I use metoffice and google's weather for actual forecasts, but with this app, you can set alarms for different rain intensities and coverage at different ranges - and set vibration signals for these. So you can 'feel' an alarm in your back pocket as you ride.

I find that wet water drops in the air set off my built in alarm.