Alex, I guess my new scope curse debt is a year per inch of aperture. Should've just ordered a 1 incher
Doug I check skippysky and BSCH's satellite loop to predict the night ahead,. Skippysky's cloud prediction is accurate for a good 24 hours ahead. BSCH's hi res satellite loops are great for predicting where incoming cloud bands will be in the next few hours.
Example - today. Lots of high cloud near Adelaide blooming faster than a 50 megaton mushroom cloud and moving towards yours truly
Estimating the distance covered by this filth over a time period of 4 hours on the satpic loop for example, I estimate it will be over Melbourne by midnight.
The BOM's predictions of sunshine a few days ahead invariably degenerate into "cloudy with showers" by the time the day actually arrives. Probably just because it's Melbourne though.