Weather Services
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- Last Updated on Saturday, 30 March 2013 10:29
- Written by Site Admin
In Australia, the most comprehensive and reliable weather service is the Bureau of Meteorology, from which most other Australian weather sites derive their information.
Have you tried SkippySky? http://www.skippysky.com.au/ is an outstanding site for cloud forecasts, aimed at astronomers. Areas covered are Australia (as a whole and several regions), New Zealand, central Chile, Europe and North America.
In New Zealand, Roland Idaczyk recommends Metservice (http://metservice.com/national/?alias=wellington) He adds:
- 7-Timer ... based in China. Allows to define locations by geographical coordinates. Reliable forecasts (which are hard for Wellington in any case!) maybe 75% of the time. The example link shows the forecast of my site. (Documentation: http://7timer.y234.cn/V3/misc/apanel_en.pdf)http://7timer.y234.cn/V3/exe/apanel.php?lon=174.7650&lat=-41.2485&en
- AccuWeather.com ... an international website which can be customised for individual predefined locations (e.g. cities; example link for Wellington - see below). This forecast is in average pretty good and provides hour-by-hour forecasts and some basic astronomical data. http://www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=netweather&locCode=OCN%7CNZ%7CNZ000%7CWELLINGTON%7C&metric=1
- The Weather Channel ... satellite images. Latest IR colour image: http://image.weather.com/images/sat/new_zealsat_720x486.jpg
- Latest IR animation: http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/satelliteworld/newzealandsatellite_large_animated.html
Thanks Roland.
