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Old 23-07-2019, 02:22 PM
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https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather...03N147.059340E

use your site lat/long in the url. They are changing their website and have an app but I dont much care for those. This is an old site and for my needs I want to know the cloud cover and with an hour by hour forecast you can see patches clearing etc and like I said for me (not this lat/long) its the most accurate. I only look at clouds as if they aren't clear i dont care how great the seeing index is. Its great to be able to use the exact locations where you want to set up and it uses data from nearest surrounding weather stations to give such an accurate forecast in an out of the way location. good to have some confidence a trip and set up time is worth while . or maybe canberras weather is easy to predict? "after sunset 80% chance of darkness with some reduction of temperature"?

as an aside in the 6months leading up to the last transit of venus I checked every week every weather forecast website I could find to try to find the one with the best longer range forecast and what the weather actually was. I was thinking of possibly travelling at the time if I was confident Canberra was going to be cloudy so I had locations in different directions in driving distance so I could have a confident fallback plan. drive one direction the skies might have gotten worse not better etc.

All my planning all forecasts were off on the day but during that six months the BOM was the most consistent for forecast accuracy. I hadnt encountered meteoblue at the time though. So based on my experimential experience I put my faith in MB followed by BOM. For my needs and weather knowledge Level 0 I'm happy they match what I experience at the time.
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