Most accurate weather site?

[Shads]

I need a better weather site then what is currently available to me! Don't know what to wear anymore! Morning Live says it is 25 in Dbn today. E-TV says 22 and Accuweather says 19!

Now I don't know what to wear! I mean - 25 is hot, so short sleeves is ok. 19 is cold - so dress warm!

Anyone use a weather site with more accurate weather?

[Ninja'd]

That reminds of a friend who always watched the English weather cause "hy wil nie in Afrikaans koud kry nie."

I check mine on the DSTV weather channel thing. Just use an average amount of all 3 sources.

[web]

http://www.weatherphotos.co.za/ I use this site lots of info...

[Elimentals]

Best dam site eva.... http://weatherspark.com/

[noxibox]

The weather's unpredictable!

But I generally check Weather Underground.

[Shads]

That reminds of a friend who always watched the English weather cause "hy wil nie in Afrikaans koud kry nie."

I check mine on the DSTV weather channel thing. Just use an average amount of all 3 sources.

LOL! No, not that I'd mind if there's like a 1 or 2 degree difference. But the difference between 19 and 25 is quite much, won't you say?

[mercurial]

I use weather.news24.com, as www.weathersa.co.za is shockingly inaccurate.

[bwana]

http://www.windguru.cz/int/ - though I usually rely on WeatherBug on my Blackberry.

[Shads]

http://www.weatherphotos.co.za/ I use this site lots of info...

Love this site! Thanks!

[Shads]

Best dam site eva.... http://weatherspark.com/

Thanks! Shows Dbn as 20 today! Big difference to the 25! I'll track the temperature today - would be interesting to note if it goes more towards 20 or 25. Thanks again!

[Elimentals]

Thanks! Shows Dbn as 20 today! Big difference to the 25! I'll track the temperature today - would be interesting to note if it goes more towards 20 or 25. Thanks again!

What I like about weatherspark is that its live updates, so as weather change(new information example wind change) the updates does. Also the history is unmatched.

Edit: LOL seems that Durban only has 1 weather station that only works from 7 am to 7 pm.... good luck.

[hungrybeaver]

I use Wunderground (http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=durban) because its very accurate. The site reads from different weather stations located around the city!



Best dam site eva.... http://weatherspark.com/

This site is awesome!

[Flanders]

http://www.weatherphotos.co.za/ I use this site lots of info...

Yep, I use this one all the time too.

[wrathex]

I use two, our local weather site (limited) and this site: http://www.yr.no/place/South_Africa/Western_Cape/Stellenbosch/ I love the animated map on the right.

[MickZA]

I use two, our local weather site (limited) and this site: http://www.yr.no/place/South_Africa/Western_Cape/Stellenbosch/ I love the animated map on the right.

+1 .. but in my case:
http://www.yr.no/place/South_Africa/Eastern_Cape/Port_Elizabeth/

Norway seems able to predict our weather better than weathersa.

[Datura]

LookOutTheWindow.com

[GreyBush]

Windguru for sure.... I also use magicseaweed (http://www.magicseaweed.com) but thats more for surf conditions.

[beans100]

www.forca.com
I've been havin' it for years now, sometimes a little out, but most of he time it's spot on.

[genetic]

I need a better weather site then what is currently available to me! Don't know what to wear anymore! Morning Live says it is 25 in Dbn today. E-TV says 22 and Accuweather says 19!

Now I don't know what to wear! I mean - 25 is hot, so short sleeves is ok. 19 is cold - so dress warm!

Anyone use a weather site with more accurate weather?

South African Weather Service / www.weathersa.co.za is the most accurate. SABC weather gets it's data directly from SAWS. E-TV doesn't.

Is SAWS data accurate?



Yes, it's the only accurate source in the world for SA. The only one! Sure the SABC get some very high level maps from us, and most of SA's newspapers get their data from us, but basically everything else you see is complete drivel.

It's our bad...we've been very tough to access up until now.

See the next topic for more insight as to why we are WAY more accurate than anyone else.




Quite simply, everything else out there is completely inaccurate. Accuweather, Weather Underground, and all the international weather sites source their data from a single one of OUR pre-forecast model runs. We would NEVER publish that data to end users - it's a first rough cut of the high level systems, and has almost nothing to do with what happens in your town. After sharing that data with WMO met offices around the world (we get theirs, they get ours), we combine the results with 5 other local model systems, and then hand the complete set of data over to locally based weather forecasters. These are the guys who know everything about their region's topography, and do forecasts that models simply cannot do. It's the same way it's done all over the world; no single country would even dream of using the shared international model runs to do a local forecast.

Here's a brief list of what SAWS, and only SAWS, has exclusive access to:

* National radar network (how anyone can predict anything without radar is just laughable)
* National lightning detection network
* 5 regional offices
* A very large team of forecasters, each with regional knowledge of topography (eg CT mountain! Imagine modeling CT as a smooth globe!!)
* Numerous model runs which forecasters use for various systems (rain is done from a different model to humidity which is different from wind etc)

SAWS is Africa's only met office accredited by the WMO to do Africa-wide forecasts. No one else does it. So, when accuweather allows you to enter your exact geographic position to get a forecast for Dainfern being 8km away from Lanseria, they are doing an interpolation between the grossly inaccurate JHB forecast they have, and the grossly inaccurate PTA forecast. Just because they can show the current conditions of Lanseria (pirated from our realtime WMO data feed), it does not mean they have a forecast for Lanseria. We do. We own the weather station there, and we're required to do a very detailed forecast for that airport.

Don't believe us? Just watch our forecasts for a while and then decide. It'd be laughable...if it wasn't serious!

PS: Right now, eTV do not source from us, nor does Weather24, nor does DSTV weather channel. They all prefer to use the free feeds. So if you want an easy comparison, just watch any of those channels and compare to our forecasts, you'll quickly get the idea.


http://dev2.weathersa.co.za/subscr/faq.html

[Shads]

OK - so Morning Live (SABC weather) lost out big time today. Just went to my car, saw the temperature and it is 20! 25 - way off!

Thanks for all the great links! Much appreciated!