<story><title>Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract after 93 years</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/23/met-office-loses-bbc-weather-forecasting-contract</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve lived in the UK for the past 8 years now (having lived in various places in the East Coast USA for the rest of my life).&lt;p&gt;I learned quickly that English weather forecasts are useless past the current day.  It is probably due to the geographical location.  East Coast US was accurate to 3 to 5 days.  I just use Dark Sky[0] to get weather for the next several hours, which is mostly accurate.&lt;p&gt;Given the situation with the contract I see lots of back and forth noting accuracy - but Met Office does just as good a job as anyone else, for probably a much higher fee.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forecast.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forecast.io&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>&amp;gt; East Coast US was accurate to 3 to 5 days&lt;p&gt;Interestingly in the US, the East Coast forecast is more accurate than the West Coast.&lt;p&gt;This is because the trade winds in the US mostly move West to East, so most of the Weather moves in that direction as well.&lt;p&gt;There are more weather sensors on land then in the Sea, so there is more data available to make a forecast with.</text></comment>
<story><title>Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract after 93 years</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/23/met-office-loses-bbc-weather-forecasting-contract</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve lived in the UK for the past 8 years now (having lived in various places in the East Coast USA for the rest of my life).&lt;p&gt;I learned quickly that English weather forecasts are useless past the current day.  It is probably due to the geographical location.  East Coast US was accurate to 3 to 5 days.  I just use Dark Sky[0] to get weather for the next several hours, which is mostly accurate.&lt;p&gt;Given the situation with the contract I see lots of back and forth noting accuracy - but Met Office does just as good a job as anyone else, for probably a much higher fee.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forecast.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forecast.io&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>Agreed, many dynamics as far as UK weather concerned and probably the hardest country&amp;#x2F;area to do a forecast due to those dynamics.&lt;p&gt;Indeed even the Guardian reports this &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;uk&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;sep&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;uk-weather-defies-prediction-forecasters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;uk&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;sep&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;uk-weather-defies-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>