Clair Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I have been looking at this website regularly and find it very accurate on a day-to-day basis.wwwa.accuweather.com/I've got it updating itself on my status bar (through Firefox) and it accurately predicted a safe window in the weather to do a quick roof repair between sleety showers!!According to tonight's prediction, we should have our first overnight frost... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I also use it Clair, but find it's not all that reliable, but then what forecast is!! Also meteo is ok http://www.meteofrance.com/FR/index.jsp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossumGirl Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Interesting. I usually use meteofrance, but compared the two and their forecasts vary significantly! I'll have to see who was correct.PG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samdebretagne Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 I'm constantly surprised by how off the weathermen (or women) are here - for example, they forecasted rain all day today, but there's a bright blue sky outside and not a cloud in sight! Anyways, fr.weather.com is the most accurate site I've found, it's a division of the American "Weather Channel" site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 I agree about the accuracy of fr.weather.com. Also I have found http://www.lafranceagricole.fr/index.php?menu=meteo&prevision=jour&page=METEO_DEPARTEMENTALE_POPUP&departement=72 pretty accurate on rainfall. I don't know where they get the data from (and its a max of a few days) but they give the amount of rain expected each day and seems quite accurate (for weather forecasts).I used to use Accuweather but they were not very accurate.Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 I too was surprised by how inaccurate some weather sites could be, until I realised that most were automatically linking our request to a nearby town in our department which had a totally different geographic situation from our village.The town in question is in an open valley at 260m altitude. We are surrounded by (small) peaks and valleys at an altitude of 650m. Since changing the local reference to Aurillac, a nearby town situated much like our village, the accuracy has improved tremendously.As well as the above mentioned website, I too regularly consult MétéoFranceIf you click on the map, you can see a much more localised area, as well as details of which weather station applies to your request. There's also a wealth of details concerning altitude, air pressure, wind speed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossumGirl Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Okay, in the great battle of Accuweather vs. MeteoFrance, all I can say is Accuweather wasn't!I took Maggie for a walk and got caught in a downpour. I should have listened to the Boulangere this morning when she told me it was going to rain!PG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 I tend to find MeteoFrance a bit pessimistic about the weather. Normally not too bad just they always say it is going to be a bit worse than it turns out to be.Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Just found this thread. We use www.meteoconsult.fr . The daily forcast is a freebe, but we pay a subscription and you can get the weather for anywhere in the world. We usually stick to our village, it goes down to villages, and it hs been pretty good. It gives guesses for upto 2 weakz in advance too. The temps tend to be a bit different to what our outside sensor tells us, but not sure if it is us or them who are out, but normally if it says rain then we get at least a little... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zoff Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 I am reminded of a breakfast radio programme we used to listen to in the 80s when we lived in the Birmingham area - Les Ross on BRMB. He used to blame the poor record of their weather forecaster on the station's practice of simply repeating the previous year's forecasts to save money.He also had a saying for when the weather wasn't improving - "It's getting darker as it gets lighter". We still say this in our family now.His comments may not have been orginal but they were new to us. Funny how these silly things stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 A Radio 4 met guy once said that he could always get part of his forcast correct by looking out of the window to see what it was like on his way into the studio! Well, they do have a Cray, the fastest and most powerful mainframe computer in the world. At least it used to be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I have just found that I can get Quillans weather via MSN http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?&wealocations=wc:27124&setunit=C and there is a 10 day forcast as well. If I want it in French then I can go to http://meteo.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:27124 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Does anyone use http://www.wunderground.com/global/FR.html You look for the nearest town and get a week's forecast, usually quite accurate. I like the pictures too of the sun and storm etc. You can also easily find other towns all over the world - our family is scattered far and wide in UK, Kuwait, Kodai Kanal etc, and I like to be able to know what the weather's like with them. Pat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 [quote user="Quillan"]I have just found that I can get Quillans weather via MSN http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?&wealocations=wc:27124&setunit=C and there is a 10 day forcast as well. If I want it in French then I can go to http://meteo.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:27124 [/quote]quillanjust tried your weather site. brilliant. couldn't find our village but found the nearest town. thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 [quote user="sweet 17"]just tried your weather site. brilliant. couldn't find our village but found the nearest town. thank you[/quote]In our case, the nearest town associated to our village and postcode is actually 500m lower in altitude and in a narrow valley, so the weather shown is hugely inaccurate: the current temp is shown as -1ºC no wind when it's already -6º with a northerly outside... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 clairthanks for pointing that out. i think the nearest town is more or less on the same level as our village, but i shall check next time i'm there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenniswitch Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 [quote user="Patf"]Does anyone use http://www.wunderground.com/global/FR.html You look for the nearest town and get a week's forecast, usually quite accurate. I like the pictures too of the sun and storm etc. You can also easily find other towns all over the world - our family is scattered far and wide in UK, Kuwait, Kodai Kanal etc, and I like to be able to know what the weather's like with them. Pat.[/quote]I like that one, too (use it and Accuweather and MeteoConsult and Meteo France as I'm a weather junkie and find each of them useful in its own way). I especially like being able to print the star charts as I am (very belatedly) trying to learn to identify constellations other than Orion. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le martin-pêcheur Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Hi,You could try this site that our french friends recommended. Great video, very friendly little fellow, if you have broadband, or at least 512k. www.lachainemeteo.com/aff_ville.php?langue=fr&num_pays=63&nom_pays=franceJust choose your commune et voila!Gives a 12 day forecast.........though not sure of the accuracy that far in advance.Cheers, Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aly (used to be Charlotte3) Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Great site, Tony.Thanks, Aly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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