Excellent weather forecasting website

Checking out the forecasts again, I see Metcheck and WeatherWorld have changed their minds and are both giving opposite forecasts.

Again, The Weather Outlook is "sticking to it's guns" for good weather. Metcheck give fairly clear skies from Monday through to Tuesday evening.

The East Antrim Astronomical Society will be having a webcast on their website at:

www.eaas.co.uk/news/20040608_venustransit.html

and weather watcher is giving mostly cloudly for Tuesday morn

Weather Watcher uses data from The Weather Channel.

How about trying Met. Eireann? I've always found them accurate. Here's their outlook.

3 Day Outlook:
Becoming unsettled, but remaining fairly warm. Mostly dry Monday night and into Tuesday, with sunshine in places again on Tuesday. Rain becoming widespread later Tuesday, Tuesday night and early Wednesday, and turning heavy and thundery in places. Clearing up on Wednesday - becoming brighter and drier, with sunny spells, and a bit fresher also. Breezy and blustery on Thursday, with sunshine and scattered heavy showers.

Thats cheered me up

Thanks

Conor

Hi folks,

This is my first post on this forum. I have searched for this question and couldn't find it, but I apologise if it has been asked before.

I have wanted a telescope for about 20 years, and I finally bought one last october. Since then I have got to use it maybe 5 times. I live in Bangor and we have had 100% cloud cover pretty much 28 days a month. The last time I did any serious astronomy was about 10 years ago and I seem to remember the winter having a fair number of nice clear nights. Am I suffering from rose tinted specs, or is the weather getting worse? Maybe Bangor is just a really bad location for astronomy. I had plans to convert my garage roof into an observatory, but that is obviously pointless if I can only use it once a month.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Simon

I can only speak for the North-East of england, but we do seem to have had an unusually high percentage of cloudy nights so far this winter.

here's the Met office page that has satellite photos of cloud cover over the UK, updated hourly.

IR pic (great at night)
www.meto.gov.uk/satpics/latest_uk_ir.html

and the visible light pic (daytime only)
www.meto.gov.uk/satpics/latest_uk_vis.html