Best Weather Forecast sites?

Bleating Lamb

Seeing as we as Farmers are always looking to get accurate Weather Forecasts or should I say a forecast that is right more often than its wrong I thought coming into the Silage Harvesting season (for us one cut people)….and in the current deluges of rain in NW looking for a bit of sun on the horizon it might be an idea for people around the country to share addresses for websites etc they find good.

I generally follow yr weather as I like the fact it gives an hourly breakdown option for the prevailing conditions,and for the following day.
Can anyone please stick up a link to the old style Met Eireann site which still exists..... where you can see the rainfall pattern coming in off the Atlantic iykwim.
I find the 'new' Met Eireann Forecast unclear and hard to follow online.

st1979

I like weatherforecast.com I just googled my town name and 9 day weather it was 3rd or 4th hit. Divides day into 3. If I was doing hay or something where I am stressed about a shower. I would check a town a bit westerly of me as well

MfMan

After this week, none of them. None last Monday predicted accurately the rain we got Tuesday. It just shows how erratic and inexact weather prediction is.

As I've written here before, ignore yr.no, it's practically clueless. As above, weather-forecast.com and met.ie I find are the two best. For all it's faults, met.ie is dedicated to Irish weather, not reporting it as an afterthought.

amacca

genuinely find the daily forecasts by mt cranium in the weather forum on boards here very good

I use them in conjunction with met.ie rainfall radar forecast (7 day one)etc ...and find that combo to be as good as it gets

The Rabbi

http://archive.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp
YR way off target for rain prediction.
Wunderground.com can be good.

Neddyusa

MfMan wrote: »

After this week, none of them. None last Monday predicted accurately the rain we got Tuesday. It just shows how erratic and inexact weather prediction is.

As I've written here before, ignore yr.no, it's practically clueless. As above, weather-forecast.com and met.ie I find are the two best. For all it's faults, met.ie is dedicated to Irish weather, not reporting it as an afterthought.

Absolutely!
I got caught out badly taking the forecasts at their word and mowing for silage Monday evening.
Tuesdays rain (by Met Eireann, Yr, UK MET, and MT Cranium was meant to fall mainly in the East and south-east...
We were forecast to be west of the rain and only get 1-2mm.
Rain front ended up stalling about 100km further West than forecast.
Over 45mm has fallen since and the sodden grass still in rows....

Waffletraktor

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjxjP2_z9biAhUBsXEKHR8pBNoQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funnysigns.net%2Fjohns-weather-forecasting-stone%2F&psig=AOvVaw0rswuDlNQUQ9HuvAsdRkG6&ust=1559971104976802
Yr.no especially has been rubbish for getting on a year.

www.xcweather.co.uk

_Brian

Last year apparently YR changed its forecast software and is as a result less accurate for this region. It had been good up to that.

I like the “weather radar” app for general forecast.

There’s one called “windy” which goes into great detail in wind forecast but also covers general forecast quite accurate.

Cavanjack

I know four lads that cut round here on Monday. It’s still lying in the fields. None of them would know what an app was. Maybe the farming weather last Sunday at dinner time wasn’t too accurate either.

Belongamick

I find


www.windfinder.com


to be pretty reliable. It is available as an APP for your smartphone.

Joe Daly

Carlow weather Alan o Rielly is very good what ever he says is accurate.

High bike

I find Yr good enough lads,maybe it’s more accurate in some parts of the country

stretch film

High bike wrote: »

I find Yr good enough lads,maybe it’s more accurate in some parts of the country

Met and yr must be using same models lately ... equally as inaccurate.
Rain predictions similarly far out and then disappearing of late.

High bike

They'r spot on here

lalababa

Windguru best ,and majic seaweed.

farawaygrass

Use the met app here. It keeps changing the forecast though. Could go full circle as regards rain in only a day. Never pay must attention past tomorrow’s forecast as it gets way to much unpredictable then

Blackcurrants

I'm a Kilkenny based tillage farmer and forester so the weather plays a huge role in what we do. This last couple of years the forecasts have been so inaccurate. I used to use Yr and MetEireann but they are both wrong often. Great that MetEireann update their maps when their info changes and i'm sure its very difficult to forecast when we are on the edge of the Atlantic but seriously guys we rely on you being accurate-ish and you're falling pretty far of the mark.

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Blackcurrants wrote: »

I'm a Kilkenny based tillage farmer and forester so the weather plays a huge role in what we do. This last couple of years the forecasts have been so inaccurate. I used to use Yr and MetEireann but they are both wrong often. Great that MetEireann update their maps when their info changes and i'm sure its very difficult to forecast when we are on the edge of the Atlantic but seriously guys we rely on you being accurate-ish and you're falling pretty far of the mark.

AFAIK that is the problem. If we lived further East then weather forecasts would be more predictable and accurate.

mahoney_j

Use a combination of met eireann,Carlow weather on twitter and boards regular weather msn mt cranium who gives a forecast every morning

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mahoney_j wrote: »

Use a combination of met eireann,Carlow weather on twitter and boards regular weather msn mt cranium who gives a forecast every morning

Similar to above but remove Carlow weather and replace with windy.com.