Another (very good) weather site

[Neil_Y]

Sailing with some Scandinavians last week and they told me about this very nicely presented weather site. Very easy to read and use.
site home is www.yr.no
Plymouth looks like this
http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Plymouth/
What do you think?

 

[Fergus]

Nice! Can't see how to change from m/s to kn though - maybe not possible?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Nicely presented. Very useable....

Do you know what data source it is based upon etc?

 

[Neil_Y]

No, but I've only just started using it, I just liked the clear layout and its nice to have an alternative. Hope you find it useful. I'm half converted to m/s now as we seemd to get this quite a bit around Europe now.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Nice! Can't see how to change from m/s to kn though - maybe not possible?

Knots = M/s times 2, to a good enough approximation for forecast wind strengths.

 

[Sanderling_]

This site is no good, its forecasting rain for Saturday in Plymouth. I need to find a forecast with better weather else she will make us stay at home and do some decorating!!

Tony

 

[BlueSkyNick]

I always check several sites to avoid basing a passage on one forecast only - this one has significant differences in the forecast for saturday compared to xcweather, for example.

 

[exfinnsailor]

Good weather sites

You can try ..

www.magicseaweed.com if you like animation
www.xcweather.co.uk is also good

Both showing lots of wind for Saturday

m/s to something meaningful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale

 

[LadyInBed]

Nicely presented.

I didn't think so, it was too specific for my liking.
When sailing I like to see a the picture for a larger area more like WeatherOnline

 

[Neil_Y]

Not if you look at the advanced map, you can zoom to whatever map scale you want, just coastal or channel views and select time and information you want to see. It zooms in and out quickly to see weather systems approaching.

It needs 5 mins playing to find some of the features, I like weather online but you can't choose the map size or select your own region so easily.

 

[georgeo]

I have got this Scandinavian site on my 'favorites list'. Interestingly, recommended to me by a Frenchman, member of the RM association who hails from Cherbourg and does a lot of very serious sailing. He prefers it to the French sites, and I always thought they were pretty good (remember the difference in met forecasts France/UK prior to the 'great storm' of 1987?)

 

[geoid96]

..... Do you know what data source it is based upon etc?

Weather forecasts on yr.no are based on data provided by Norwegian Meteorological Institute and its international partner institutions such as European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ( ECMWF ) and European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites ( EUMETSAT ).

yr.no is the joint online weather service from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute ( met.no ) and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ( NRK ).

yr.no is unique within Europe because of their detailed weather forecasts and free data policy. Their aim is to make data as accessible as possible to the public.

Source: European Public Sector Information Platform

You can also download GRIB files from yr.no http://www.yr.no/verdata/1.5338672