| This is an unofficial page, for the best weather advice (my personal view) go to the Met Office. Amittedly I work for them but that's not the point. There are many other weather services available but in the UK the Met is the daddy. Other services often take the information that the Met Office pays to gather, such as the observations from airfields and satelite imagery, and decode them straight to a website. I'll include links to other sites because some of them, like the American weatherunderground, are useful. NONE of us get it right all the time. I'll add more as I find them. |
| National weather bodies: The Meterological Office (the Met Office). The official British Met Office, a trading firm of the Ministry of Defence. Might sound a bit odd, the MoD having a weather service but the Met Office was started in 1854 by soon to be Vice Admiral Robert FitzRoy to provide the Royal Navy with "accurate" weather information, a tradition that had it's "finest hour" in 1944 with Op Overlord. See the history section for more information. NOAA - The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. The official USA weather service including the excellent National Hurricane Centre, of center as the Americans call it. Good place to look for the tropical storms and depressions that often effect our weather when they get into the east Atlantic and dump a load of energy and moisture into our systems. European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting - ECMWF These guys, as the name suggests, deal with the medium range (3 to 6 days) forecasts and some wicked ensemble forecasts. (See definitions page for details of ensemble and probabilistic forecasts.) The big boys, and our governing body (supposedly) a division of the United Nations, ladies and gentlemen, the World Metereological Organisation, the WMO.They, like most UN bodies, set international standards and stuff. MeteoSwiss the Swiss weather service. Not sure but it's funky. The Irish weather service. __________________________________________________________________________ Individuals and groups: in no real order: Weather matrix: a web-based group of enthusiasts, Ameteur and professionals. Storm tracking from a different source. Weather links, more than here and differently organised. Theyr - a different forecasting centre. Mark Stronge's weather page. References the MetO amongst others. Weather Underground or "Wunderground" - generally a decode of the METAR code but makes finding specific info a breeze. __________________________________________________________________________ Charts: Reading Uni Met unit - half the staff in the Met Office College seem to have gone here. Weather Charts - again, plotted and others. EuroWeather - pretty good collection of charts and images. Frank Singleton's weather for sailors - good charts page. |
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