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And I had a game of golf cancelled on Friday afternoon because the heavens were supposed to open. It turned out to be a nice dry afternoon with touches of blue sky! I wasn't happy since that was my only opportunity to get out over the weekend.

They have definitely got worse. I tend to disregard them for the most part and use the NW Storm Radar app on my phone that feeds radar images of rain bearing cloud, updated every 15 minutes.

Accuweather is pretty good in my experience. WTForecast is an amusing diversion.

The Microsoft weather app seems reasonably good, for a weather app.

Never mind the poor forecasts, what about the actual weather?
I left the UK on Saturday 2 September in the evening, blue skies, calm and returned a week later to doom and gloom.
Before I left I was wearing short sleeved shirts to work (and to go out shopping). When I got back just a week later, I'm now wearing long sleeves and a jacket.

How much money have we given as taxpayers to the Met Office for "supercomputers" yet they still can't get the forecast anywhere near right most of the time - even looking out of the window, the forecast for the next half hour would be better based on what they see rather than the predictions of the supercomputers

I have a pine cone. When it is going to be fine and dry the cone opens up so the seeds can be dispersed and when it is going to be unsettled it closes up. I've offered the BBC one as well.