Weather links

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Will fill this in more tomorrow but I thought a thread with where to get more info would be good Would love to see other peoples favourites in here.

Here's one to start. My favourite at the moment for a quick rough and ready look at where the snow might go over the next 24 hours.:

met office invent weather map

to look at precipitation (most of which is snow at moment obv) click on rainfall. you can cycle through until the next day and zoom in on the location you are interested in. Can look at temps and wind too.

Met office does it for me

There is no better surely

my fav is www.metcheck.com

the met ofice are great and (apart from their seasonal guesswork) seem to be doing a better and better job to me. I think the thing that they don't convey is the uncertainty of forecasting. Especially in marginal conditions.

Frizbe,

Couple of more links at some of the things I look at:

When I'm trying to work the weather forecast out myself I tend to use wetterzentrale

Quick guide at some of the stuff I look at (will put this in the links area)

GFS for long range thoughts.
I look at 2m temps (that's surface temps) and 500hpa (that gives an idea of upper temps in a roundabout way and tells me a little of whether its more likely to be snow or rain, but am still learning that) Also look at niederschlag (precipitation and 10m wind.

For long range pressure charts I look at ECMWF I also look a little at JMA

For short term I look at UKMO, and for looking at troughs and things the Bracknell Fax charts.

I also look at how the GFS is trending - look at a collection of models called ensembles. I find these on netweather tv

remember that each of the models can produce very different results for the same time period. This is part of the art and uncertainty of forecasting - trying to make something sensible out of a wide variety of solutions. I am rubbish at it and tend to look for help by reading weather forums.

www.raintoday.co.uk/ shows a larger picture than the met office one.

www.yr.no/satellitt/1.5941760 is an animation of 48-hours worth of satellite images showing the clouds. This one is interesting at the moment because it shows a band of cloud moving NE-SW and a rotating area of cloud moving up from France.

Looking at: www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/surface_pressure.html there's a trough marked on the leading edge of the cloud coming from France and (from what I understand) that'll be the area where the precipitation will fall.