7 day weather forecast for your town

[Tartan Bar]

A Spanish friend has given me the website for the Spanish Meteorology department and I have found it very useful for a 7 day forecast for Olvera but you can put in your town and get the forecast. The address is www.inm.es and you have to click on the 'Prediccion a 7 dias' and then select your Province and town.
I hope some of you find this useful.
regards
Ian

[Pigeon Tim]

Great stuff, thanks.

[Colinm]

Nice site, thanks Tim.
Certainly better than yahoo weather!

[Shukran]

It's the only site I let my husband go on and it's been reasonably accurate for over a year since we started using this website. You will find that the 7-day is quite changeable (like anywhere really) after the first couple of days, but on a day-to-day basis it's very good. It's the best site that we've found for accurate weather because it shows towns as well as cities.

[Beryl1914]

Great much better than just knowing the Malaga area

[anyroads]

Well Colinm,

We know what the weather is going to be like for the next 7 days in Cork ( but the same in Clare ! )

anyroads

[ron]

You can also use the radar maps to track the direction and speed rain is moving.

[peteroldracer]

For those of you around Lake Vinuela, try <http://www.malagaweather.com/ >
Apart from the webcam (which may show your house if you live next to the lake!) there are statistics, forecasts, radar maps....it is probably even better if you can manage some German!

[freecatsrus]

We use the yahoo widgets for our weather and been pretty accurate up to now.

[brenda]

I can second peteroldracers recommendation of www.malagaweather.com

We find its forecasts very accurate and they are updated throughout the day - e.g. went from 5% to 20% chance of rain today but not until we had had a downpour!

Generally good webcam images too.

[El Cid]

I can second peteroldracers recommendation of www.malagaweather.com .

Yes, its a very interesting site with some good links and I use it to see whats coming our way but I cant see any weather forecast there!

Have I missed something?

If you can cope with reading a weather chart, the USAF site has some good ones which I have found to be the most accurate.

http://ows.public.sembach.af.mil/index. ... on=SFCProg

Sid

[brenda]

Just the 4 day forecast at the bottom of the Home page.

[andalucia]

Don't forget http://www.andalucia.com/weather/home.htm

[El Cid]

Just the 4 day forecast at the bottom of the Home page.

Thanks Brenda - yes, I found it after much scrolling down - poor website design!

It will be interesting to check their forecast with the actuals. I expect they just pull it in from one of the many other forecast sites.

Sid

[peteroldracer]

It will be interesting to check their forecast with the actuals. I expect they just pull it in from one of the many other forecast sites.

But Herr Sid - zu furget zis is rhun mit German efficiency!
I have usually found it good enough to know if I should put off spraying the weeds, or get the ladders and paint out!

[El Cid]

But Herr Sid - zu furget zis is rhun mit German efficiency! !

It's nice to see that they use good old English Beaufort for wind speeds!

The problem with all these "local" forecasts is that they are computer generated from the overall forecasts and that makes them appear more "accurate" because you can select your local town.

Even the UK met office have said that their own computer generated local forecasts are very innacurate. The other problem down here is that there are huge local variations in the weather. We were in Torrox last Saturday and it poured with rain for 3 hours. 5 miles east there was no rain at all.

I have a weather station similar to the one at Vinuela and it is very interesting to compare the figures as we are about 30km east. The differences are quite marked. There is no obvious trend apart from the minimum temp usually being colder there as it is inland and higher up.

Most of the time down here if you want to know what the weather will be like tomorrow, look out the window now!

Sid