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.
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
