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New look Met Office mountain forecasts

New look Met Office mountain forecasts


Postby jmarkb » Wed Jun 21, 2017 6:29 pm

I see the Met Office have revamped their mountain weather forecast: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/mountain-forecasts. Perhaps of most note is the division of the Highlands into 4 areas instead of two (more-or-less the same as MWIS, though the Met Office still does not cover the Southern Uplands). There's also more detail for the following day: wind, temperature and wind chill at 5 different levels and at 3-hourly intervals. All seems to work fine on my (Apple) phone.

The most recent version of their phone app now has rainfall radar observations/forecasts, in which you scroll through time manually rather than having them animated, and is much more user-friendly than trying to use the corresponding web pages on a phone. However, it does insist on downloading all the observation images before rendering any of them, which is a bit frustrating if you are on a low bandwidth connection.
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Re: New look Met Office mountain forecasts

Postby johnkaysleftleg » Wed Jun 21, 2017 9:28 pm

jmarkb wrote:I see the Met Office have revamped their mountain weather forecast: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/mountain-forecasts. Perhaps of most note is the division of the Highlands into 4 areas instead of two (more-or-less the same as MWIS, though the Met Office still does not cover the Southern Uplands). There's also more detail for the following day: wind, temperature and wind chill at 5 different levels and at 3-hourly intervals. All seems to work fine on my (Apple) phone.

The most recent version of their phone app now has rainfall radar observations/forecasts, in which you scroll through time manually rather than having them animated, and is much more user-friendly than trying to use the corresponding web pages on a phone. However, it does insist on downloading all the observation images before rendering any of them, which is a bit frustrating if you are on a low bandwidth connection.


Well overdue, the English/Welsh forecasts were OK but the Scottish ones where over such huge areas as to render them fairly useless, especially the West Highlands.
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