"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , Martin Sykes
writes
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

It looks like the same selection of locations as the yahoo site, so I
guess they get their data from the same source.

This site is more honest about the accuracy though - eg the Otley data
is 'as reported for Leeds' (a couple of hundred feet lower and in the
next valley) and the Settle (Yorkshire Dales) figures are simple the
Manchester ones.

So although at first sight it looks wonderfully useful for local info,
it is an illusion ;-)

Quite so. The surface of the world is divided into a large number of cells
for doing the calculations for the weather predictions, and these cells are
very much larger than any which those weather URL's pretend to be the case.

Franz