Does anyone else wonder why they bother looking at the weather reports?

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The online ones I mean. Every time I look at it, it’s changed. I looked at weather for late next week this morning and one day in particular. I looked at it 2 hours later and it had changed again. Now the weather for tomorrow has changed again.

I appreciate that weather can be hard to predict in this country and I don’t expect very accurate predictions over a week ahead but why are the reports changing every few hours and why do I persist on looking at the weather apps when there is absolutely no point in doing so?

Ah that's the question OP.
So yes, my DD and I have often wondered lately why we bother to look at the weather forecast.
My DD recently said what other job can you have that pays so well and yet you can so often be wrong 100% of the time?
My DH prefers the radar map, but it took can be wrong at times 🤷
I just go outside, look at the sky, guage the temperature and humidity, take my best guess, and keep my fingers crossed🤞
When it home to hanging a wash on the line, I'm almost always right.

Yes I totally agree. Drives me nuts trying to organise for my outdoor business.

We were supposed to have had thunderstorms yesterday, or was it Tuesday, or perhaps today...

Nope. Not a sausage.

I am convinced that the forecast has become less accurate in recent years. It rarely bears any relation to the weather we actually end up having

I am posting with a wry smile as I am on holiday in South Wales at the moment with my wife.
She is an avid watcher of the weather forecast. On Tuesday she was insisting that the rain had passed overnight and that we would have as lovely a day as the Monday had been. (We had sat overlooking the sea, drinking cocktails and it was as warm and wonderful as it had been in Greece)

11am finds us sheltering under a thankfully large tree with a thick canopy, enjoying coffee and a cinnamon bun while the dog chases his ball through a downpour.
My wife was so cross, it was hilarious!Sge kept telling me that the forecast had said NO RAIN!
I’m grinning to myself as I write because she is so practical and sensible and was so, so cross.
My theory is that she was unconsciously practicing sympathetic magic and felt she could make the sun shine if she really believed in that forecast.

In Wales we had a brilliant thunderstorm that lasted for hours during lockdown and nothing since. Do any of the weather mavens on MN know why we rarely see thunder and lightning in recent years?

This makes me cross as well. Why have a forecast that's often wrong !

Completely agree. The forecast for today...it may rain, it may not. It may be sunny, it may not

Haha. I check the forecast every night to predict my solar energy generation so see whether I need to charge my battery overnight at a cheaper rate or if the predicted solar energy will cover the daily usage. Most of the time, it’s correct. Sometimes it’s wrong and can be wrong either way round. It’s frustrating when that happens and I’ve either run out of stored energy during the evening at peak time or else spent the day exporting to the grid for no gain.

They sell the actually accurate data, so whatever we get on our phones is just the stuff they pump out for free.

I've been standing in the pissing rain with the BBC forecast (for my postcode) telling me 0% chance of rain.

It was many years ago but DC3 still tells people now "mummy doesn't trust the BBC" 😂

It’s a weather FORECAST, an indication, so doesn’t have to be accurate!

I had an ex boyfriend who told me not to live my life by weather forecasts. I took that advice to heart and did what I planned anyway. I bumped into him recently and I reminded him of that when he was moaning about the rain. He had a good chuckle and said he talked a lot of shite in those days 😆. Anyway, I still think it’s good advice.