Weather forecasting?

[Neon]

yeah - whats with the symbol that shows a cloud, with some rain, and the sun sitting on top.
That it might be cloudy, rain, sunny? Can't miss with that one can they, unless it snows.

Metservice would have a better strike rate if they just put that one up every day for Auckland. Describes 90% of the weather we get

[Quailboy]

I mostly use metservice and metvuw.

https://www.predictweather.co.nz/#/home/ is frighteningly accurate and is worked off the phases and orbits of the moon.

[Gremlin]

Metvuw, they would tend to be the most accurate, but sometimes they get it reasonably wrong.

[toycollector10]

The met service always get it right, it's just the timing that can be wrong.

I have PPL and CPL met, I had a Synoptic reporters certificate and over the last 37 years have made over 30,000 observations..Synoptic Reports, Metars, Specis and Landing Reports (ATIS).

And what it boils down to is: Local Knowledge!

Check the weather maps and prognosis over the coming couple of days and run through the weather radar images on www.metservice.co.nz

And after all these years it's just a lottery but they get it mostly right. If in doubt, turn back. Always have GETHOMEITIS in the back of your mind and how it can get you killed.

Good luck!

[Swoop]

Metservice, but ONLY for the satellite imagery. Visible and IR spectrum shots are the most useful.

[Beemer]

We often ring someone who lives where we are heading to see what the weather is like - but my late mother was shocking - she'd often say the weather was crap and we would stay home and then find out the 'howling gale and driving rain' she spoke of was nothing more than a light breeze and the hint of rain in the air!

The live webcams are good too, if there is one where you are heading or nearby.

[Crisis management]

Metvuw is my first pick along with a good look at the Tasman isobars.

The only reason I look is to decide whether I take the wet weather gear or not, it affects nothing else at all.

[EJK]

I check them all. Met, NZCity, Weather underground and TV.

[nallac]

who needs to know what the weathers gonna be like?
if its dry i'll go for a ride
if its rainning i'll go for a ride
if its windy i'll go for a ride
if its snowing i''ll say fuck me its snowing north of auckland,first time for everything then i'll go for a ride