New Met Office radar app

[Fjell]

For those who have interest in these things, the new rain radar presentation is a dramatic improvement on the old one. Apart from being much easier to use (just swipe the timeline), it also does a prediction for days ahead.

Effectively it gives you continuous surface maps from their model, which you can admittedly get from public GRIB files - but very few people even know they exist and anyway I suspect there is a lot more forecaster input in this one. I generally find the Met office to be always more accurate than any other provider at a detailed level for the UK (I mean duh). The BBC no longer uses them, which is really a quite staggering outcome given the taxpayer pays for the Met Office, and it means the BBC forecast is often rubbish.

UK rainfall radar map - Met Office

Our rainfall radar map shows precipitation and rainfall rates across the UK. Includes forecasts up to 5 days and observations from the last 48 hours.

www.metoffice.gov.uk

 

[Rob]

Thanks Fjell, indeed a vast improvement.

I use Weather&Radar App. The UI is not as good, but it is higher detail for next hour or two....

Weather & Radar - Storm radar - Apps on Google Play

Local forecast, alerts, rain radar, snow tracker, uv index & weather widget

play.google.com

 

[mikem]

I find the truth usually lies somewhere between the metoffice & Norway's yr.no (which uses English if you do!)

 

[Mr Mike]

I've always used https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

I like the forcast part of it, so it looks like bommy night is going to be dry from 16:45 in Bury, lighting fire at 17:00.

 

[alanw]

Whilst noting that the area covered by the forecast is much greater than the range of the rain radar, there can be huge jumps between the current radar rainfall and the forecast 10 minutes later (the arrow keys on a laptop keyboard are useful for this). Still, no forecast is going to be entirely accurate and account for every flutter of a butterfly's wings.

 

[Jim MacPherson]

I've always used https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

I like the forcast part of it, so it looks like bommy night is going to be dry from 16:45 in Bury, lighting fire at 17:00.

To be honest Mike I wish it was pouring with rain as my hound is not a fan of bangs generally, guns, fireworks or thunder, but I rather like the Met Office graphics, better than Metcheck's clunky stuff.

Jim

 

[alanw]

P.S. One other thing about the new interface, it doesn't have a layer, as the old one did, showing lightning.