Best/Most accurate android weather app.

[Foxy]

Looking for a decent android app or website that provides detailed and accurate weather information.
To be used mainly in Scotland.

Thanks

[Essan]

IMO the best weather tool you can have is access to the rainfall radar (I use Netweather's radar) - which tells you where it is raining, how quickly that rain is approaching you, and whether it is a light shower or a day long deluge. Meaning you can make a real time forecast for your specific location rather than relying on what a computer thinks might have happened (which is all most forecasts are - algorithmic interpretations of raw computer model putput). As an amateur weather forecaster, I use model output to get an idea of overal likely conditions this weekend, but radar tells me all I need to know on the day.

Access to MetO 'fax' (synoptic) charts is also useful, if you know how to read them. You can get them on the MWIS website - as well as a real person's interpretation of the computer model output.


Edit: Netweather now have a free android radar app available : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netweather.stormradar&hl=en_GB

[jmarkb]

Best websites for mountain weather are Met Office http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/mountain-forecast/#?tab=mountainHome and MWIS http://www.mwis.org.uk/

[tenohfive]

Essan, NW also have a Snow Radar if it interests you (in fact it came first, before the Storm Radar.) Both very handy day to day when there are bands of rain passing by (in which one town can get a pasting and the next over stays dry.)

For in the hill use though I just use MWIS. No app but it's a lot more mobile friendly than it used to be.