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08/2/2009 at 5:29pm
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Hi,

Whats the place to find half decent weather maps?

we are thinking of going away in our van next week as we are off work. We have not decided on a destination yet but it will be somewhere within a couple of hours drive and where the best of the weather will be.

the problem i have is that i cannot find a website with a 5 day forecast displayed on a map. the ones i can find will give a forecast for a given location but not a map so i can pick where the best weather is.

where do you go for your weather forecasts?


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Think you might find what you need on here. You can set your own boundries to the area you want to look at

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ee/ee_forecast_weather.html



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08/2/2009 at 6:25pm
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cath,

that is absolutely spot on!

thank you very much!


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Your welcome

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08/2/2009 at 9:29pm
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try msn weather they do a 10 day forecast


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08/2/2009 at 10:54pm
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This is another good one.
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/HOME/

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09/2/2009 at 8:23am
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Quote: Originally posted by Scruffy Wuffys1 on 08/2/2009
try msn weather they do a 10 day forecast


thanks,

but i have little faith in 5 day forecasts, i rally can't see a 10 day forecast coming true other than by fluke!


14/2/2009 at 11:26pm
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hmmm.... all weather forecasts were wrong!





15/2/2009 at 7:09am
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Fantastic pic Zoothornrollo!!

When and where was that?


15/2/2009 at 7:42am
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this was Ord House, East Ord, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. It was taken on Thursday around 1pm.

it was beautiful but a little annoying we could not get the car off the site again until we left on Friday... and had to get the site tractor to pull the caravan out for us


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15/2/2009 at 10:21am
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At least you got away - we were meant to move our van on  Thursday when our street was thick with snow and traffic crawling everywhere. No point trying to get 'van through Newcastle's horrific Friday evening traffic so weekend at home. GRRRRR!! Needless to say snow all gone now.


15/2/2009 at 2:05pm
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  try metcheck.com no maps but a very good weather site.

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bbc.co.uk/weather

accuweather

metoffice

weather.co.uk

metcheck.com

i look at them all! they all say different at times..

 



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15/2/2009 at 6:59pm
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My favourite is Metacheck. I have used it for a couple of years now, and it is usually really accurate. You can see a forecast right into March right now!! It is not a map, but you can put in the postcode of the site you are visiting to see what they are getting.


16/2/2009 at 2:34pm
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No weather forecast for the UK is worth anything beyond 3 days ahead, and most are near useless more than 24 hours ahead.

Still, I always look at the 10 day ahead ones. They change on an hourly basis, and usually forecast thunder storms at some point!



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17/2/2009 at 11:31am
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Well thanks to you all for sharing this, I am going to check them all out for march, then just to be sure will look out of window, pack extra wellies and just go anyway.

Yippee! Happy camping!




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