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stillaroverstillarover Posts: 5
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Can anyone recommend a weather app that's more accurate than the BBC? Trying to plan when best to garden to avoid the worst of the weather. 

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  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Try the Met Office I find it much more accurate than the BBC.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Me too.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    edited June 2022
    I've used Net Weather for years. A 7 day forecast plus a weather radar so that you can see rain approaching
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    I agree about the Met Office. windy.com is mesmerising to look at!
    East Anglia
  • WallflowerBryWallflowerBry Posts: 81
    Asarum said:
    I agree about the Met Office. windy.com is mesmerising to look at!
    Just had a look at windy.com and it is indeed mesmerising and rather lovely but I'll stick with Met Office too as windy.com has a bit too much going on for my old brain to get to grips with  :D
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    I Iike Acuweather.

    I also find the beeb more accurate than the Met Office, bizarrely! 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    pansyface said:

     the BBC and the Met Office are often at odds with each other.

    Usually in London to two are at odds. The BBC source seems to take London as one entity; the Met has a station in north London, so it's nearly always more accurate.

    Accuweather often comes out top in the leagues for accuracy - I'm not sure why and what tech gathering they use. They add historical temps and daily averages looking forward, which I find quite mesmerising.

    I like that the Met has a 'last 24 hrs' function so you can see what the temps really did, hour by hour. It's esp useful to see if there was a frost (esp if you live close to the station).

    I would think the closer you live to the weather station in question, the more reliably accurate your data will be. It's worth looking up which stations your source uses.
  • stillaroverstillarover Posts: 5
    Thanks everyone.  I'm going to give met office a try for a week or two and compare with bbc. 
  • stillaroverstillarover Posts: 5
    Pansyface I will definitely try to find where my local weather stations are and which sites use them.  Hopefully there's one in Lancaster that someone uses.
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