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Any recommendations for an easy to use accurate weather app.
The recent met office app upgrade has made it pretty unusable. I think they've tried & failed to give a modern look. All they've achieved is a clunky hard to find information that looks like it was designed by a toddler.
I checked the weather last night as I was due to go to a lesson today & didn't even see the wind strengths. It used to be right there as you opened the app. Now you have scroll & click to discover there are 55mph gusts expected 🙄
 
I have met office, BBC, apple one that comes with the phone, Ventusky app (recently recommended on here! Cool maps) and met check. I’m slightly obsessive about it all!! 😂. None of them are terribly accurate so I use a law of averages across all findings. Sorry not particularly helpful but you can pick an option out of that lot as a starting point!! I agree about new Met office so will now go and try to switch it back to the old version. I like to know the feels like temperature hour by hour so I can obsess about horse being in the wrong rug…
 
I use metcheck, which is a horrible weird design that takes a bit of getting used to, but I have found it incredibly accurate for probably 20 years (and it hasn't been improved in that time!). But once you are used to it it's very good and does show wind speed, plus either 2 day or 16 day forecasts. The 48 hour forecast is broken down into 3-hourly segments and is the most accurate I have found.
 
dorsetladette said:
I use metcheck too. I've used it for about 15 years since working with fishermen. Fishermen use it so it must be pretty reliable.
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I remember being at work probably 20 years ago and it was the only forecast showing snow. Everyone laughed at me when I said it was going to snow at 3pm. It started exactly at 3. By 6pm we were all stuck in our cars on a hill (I escaped by driving over a roundabout, thank you little Land Rover). Took everyone about 5 more hours to get out.

I didn't know that about the fishermen.
 
Lamehorses said:
Any recommendations for an easy to use accurate weather app.
The recent met office app upgrade has made it pretty unusable. I think they've tried & failed to give a modern look. All they've achieved is a clunky hard to find information that looks like it was designed by a toddler.
I checked the weather last night as I was due to go to a lesson today & didn't even see the wind strengths. It used to be right there as you opened the app. Now you have scroll & click to discover there are 55mph gusts expected 🙄
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Yep. It now refuses to accept my location and keeps changing it. I have to reset it every time.

The money would have been better spent on improving accuracy.
 
Glad to hear I'm not the only one that hates the new version, was a bit concerned I wa being a stroppy 'don't like change' oldy.
Have now downloaded several of the above suggestions & will see what works.
I can't work out how to revert to the pre update version of met office
 
For a conventional weather forecast, I like the BBC weather forecast.

My favourite though is Ventusky (screenshot below), which is a weather map that you can zoom in and out of, and scroll forward for up to a fortnight, focusing on temperature / precipitation / wind speed etc. You can use it via a browser or the Ventusky App - there's a free version, plus a premium subscription version. From our experience, both are very accurate.
 

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I'm another who ditched Metoffice when it changed. They also annoyed me by saying I either had to accept all thoer cookies, or pay.

The layout of XCWeather is great, but I don't find it that accurate. I'm currenlty using NetWeather which has all the information well laid out, and has been pretty accurate so far.
 
WeatherRadar is our go to, it seems accurate practically to the minute! I like that you can look for rain or wind or temperatures separately, and that it pinpoints where you are on the weather map. Excellent app.
 
I could have coped with the new Met Office app if it hadn't a) removed all my saved locations and then denied all knowledge of one of them existing when I tried to add it back in and b) removed the ability to just quickly scroll through my locations easily and instead meant I had to click to change the location and then select the new one. It's a classic case of new =/= improved!
 
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