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11 years 8 months ago #96674 by stang
Best Weather Websites or Apps?? was created by stang
Hi All,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this,

Just wondering what weather site or apps you all use to get your observing information. Any of the ones I use are pretty unreliable. For example the wunderground app can show a full clear night up to a couple of hours before and then all of a sudden it shows 100% cloud cover!

I generally use the following;
This has an hourly update on the cloud cover
www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather...eekday=Thursday&MR=1

This is quite useful as shows cloud satellite animations
www.sat24.com/

Also use Accuweather which more often than not returns different forecasts to Wunderground ??
www.accuweather.com/en/ie/dublin/207931/...ther-forecast/207931

There's also this new app called scope nights but is not available to Ireland yet - something like this would be very useful if reliable
www.eggmoonstudio.com/scopenights/

I don't even bother going near Met.ie - it doesn't really lend itself to my needs re.cloud cover. I see Starlight Xpress have a new Sky Scanner device due for release that sets off an alarm if there's a break in the clouds, but not sure this would be met with much enthusiasm from my wife at 3 in the morning while I'm running out to the back garden in my jocks.

So any reliable sites out there?

Thanks

Gareth

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11 years 8 months ago #96676 by dmcdona
Replied by dmcdona on topic Re: Best Weather Websites or Apps??
I started using this last year:

www.yr.no/


Seems pretty accurate whenever I've had the need to use it. And the interface is very clean and intuitive.

Make sure to choose "English" as your language (top right of home page)

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11 years 8 months ago #96677 by stang
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That's a good one! Thanks for that - looking good for tonight!

Gareth

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11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago #96678 by stang
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Looks like they were all wrong again! Raining here!


Gareth
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11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago #96680 by dave_lillis
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Hi,
What we've found is that its best to have a look at the sat images and weather charts yourself and then decide if the weather forecast is realistic.
We've put together a link on our own website with as many weather sources as possible to help decide if its gonna be clear or clear up or stay clear. The satellite links are the most helpfull usually.

www.shannonsideastronomyclub.com/weather.htm
Helpfull for gap in the cloud chasing B)

hope this helps.

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11 years 8 months ago #96684 by johnomahony
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Astropanel for android is very good (based on 7timer)

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