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Originally Posted by technofetishism
Is there going to be clouds? Always a worthwhile question before one bothers setting up the gear, never fun to then have to take it down as you have been clouded out. So whats one to do but check the weather.
A few of the sites I personally find useful (and there's probably others I dont know about but wish I did)
The Bureau of Meteorology Is a pretty useful choice with its various radars and satellite images.
Brisbane Storm Chasers Good satellite imagery, longer and higher resolution that whats available from BOM for all of Australia.
Skippy Sky More details and map types for things like transparency, seeing, windspeed, clouds etc.
7Timer! Gives a little 3 day forecast of things us astronomers care about
Any other useful sites people can think of for those of us out there who dont know them yet?
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SkippySky, 7Timer and just about every other free weather site on the web use the same US weather model data. Check out this post for a whole lot more info:
http://philhart.com/content/cloud-fo...an-astronomers
I've been meaning to update that post with this site:
yr.no
As far I know, it's the only (free) site that shows European Weather model data, which probably has the edge over the US model.
Best bet is to check Synthetic Forecast Loops (linked on my page and above in this thread) from Australian BoM, US model via SkippySky and European model via yr.no.
If they all agree then you can have high confidence in forecast. If they all say something different then you know you are taking a punt.
Phil