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Predicting "Weather Windows"

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With all this useless weather for flying at the moment due to rain what are you using to predict "weather windows?"

How good/reliable/ease of use is the app/forecast you are using?

Using UAV forecast personally and found it pretty good. Just wanting to find out if there is better/more reliable or something to use as a back up to cross reference etc

T
 
I use UAV Weather Forcast as well as the Dutch METEO Institute KNMI for aviation and maritime weather bulletins.

And my neighbours site, he's a weather specialist and cartography officer in the Navy and usually has a spot on forcast. But that's very local, not of much use to the rest of the world.

I also have a weather alarm app on my cellphone that's pretty accurate in predicting storms, Cb's and showers up to 2 hours upfront, with very fresh radar and satellite images so at least you know when to break off your flight. I'm sure there are many apps to provide this service.
 
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With all this useless weather for flying at the moment due to rain what are you using to predict "weather windows?"

How good/reliable/ease of use is the app/forecast you are using?

Using UAV forecast personally and found it pretty good. Just wanting to find out if there is better/more reliable or something to use as a back up to cross reference etc

T

UAV forecast is awesome:

http://www.uavforecast.com

Windyty is also excellent for forecasting micro weather including visualized wind speed and direction at surface and aloft:

https://www.windyty.com/
 
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Besides the ones mentioned above, I use an app called WeatherUnderground on iOS, by far the best weather app I've used.
 
Weather XL app is great and has been 90%+ accurate in UK in last 3 weeks. Gorgeous graphics and hour by hour forecasts....
 

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