"anne" wrote in message
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Martin Sykes wrote in message
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm
"Sad Sid" . wrote in message
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This is one area where I never trust the beeb!
I prefer to get my weather forecast from Yahoo - their local forecasts
are
invariably right.
For example, when I planned to go to Royal Welsh Show (60 miles away)
Yahoo
forecast light rain for my home town, sunny bright in Builth. That's
exactly
what happened. (The Beeb said "rain over South Wales", which would
have
stopped me going)
Try http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/UKXX1404.html



This site is usually pretty good too and it gives a full 10-day
forecast:
http://uk.weather.com/weather/local

--
Martin & Anna Sykes



The following is true (I'm a sad soul). At the beginning of the year I did
a
small experiment noting forecasts and noting what actually happened for my
city over 3 weeks (I got bored after 3 weeks). I collected each forecast
for
the following day only, no long range stuff. The three sites were Yahooo,
UK Weather.com and the Met Office. Yahoo had something like a 30%
accuracy,
UK Weather.com were about 40% I think and the Met Office came out tops
with
60 something %. I wish I'd kept the figures now. My conclusion was, it's
best to look out of the window :-) And... my goodness are they getting
paid
for this??!

That means that Yahoo was far and away the best forecaster. If you
rigorously stuck to the opposite of what they said, you would have had 70%
accuracy.

Franz