Weather Pro

[Lynda Jackson]

Does anyone happen to know what has happened to the Weather Pro website please?

It was invaluable in seeing hour by observations from Met Office sites.

Alternatively, does anyone know a site that provides comparable data?

[Freddie]

I just googled "Weather Pro" (I haven't heard of it before) and it appears to be affiliated with  MeteoGroup.  Looking at the website they offer data via apps (Android, iPhone and iPad), but they look to be subscription apps.

An alternative is OGIMET (https://www.ogimet.com/) which may meet your requirements.

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Freddie

Alcaston

Shropshire

148m AMSL

http://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/

Stats for the month so far: https://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/statistics/latest.xlsx

[Tim Furdui]

Hi Linda

i had the same question so i asked them and it seems they closed down that website - so is no longer available 

[Peter Nockles]

I had the same question and apparently Weather Pro or its American parent company took over Meteo Services WeatherCast a week or two ago.

 It is a shame - I also relied on and valued the Met Office hourly station weather readings which one could get on WeatherCast and this has now been lost. For a few days after it happened one could still get the same hourly station info from the Belgian and other continental site versions of WeatherCast but then that also suddenly went down and disappeared about a week ago, gobbled up by Weather Pro. 

   I have been in contact with the Met Office and one can access for free some of this information via the Weather Observations Website but I find it clunky and idiosyncratic to use and the info seems full of anomalies. Other alternatives are Weatherobs and Ogimet but these still not provide the same information in the same easy format that we could access before. Ogimet only gives the max temps from 1800 to 1800 hours and thus it is often not possible to identify the actual day maximum temperature. Weatherobs is also variable in the number of stations that appear for max temps. Daytime weather extremes is another source for daytime max temps and rainfall and good as far it goes. We have certainly lost an invaluable source of information which we had free. To regain the same amount of info on the same basis would cost an absolute fortune to have emailed to one by the Met Office. £6k per annum is a figure I have had quoted and that only covers about half a dozen weather station hourly and daily records.

Peter Nockles

Didsbury

[Julian Mayes]

Yes, the full observations on weathercast are a big loss since OGIMET only presents the traditional SYNOP sites.  

Just to clarify, weathercast was MeteoGroup's UK public website.   MeteoServices was the Belgian equivalent and so on.   They were discontinued after DTN merged with MeteoGroup.   WeatherPro is the trading name of an app - the source of the site-specific forecasts, so not really anything to do with this, apart from appearing as an alternative.  I do not know if there are plans to place past weather info on there - I have asked!   

As the data we all want to see is from MO observing sites (i.e. the official ones) should we not expect the MO to release this as part of their public service?   (does anyone remember 'public service'  :)  ). Yes, I know people have been asking this for hundreds of years....... I feel that they should be pressurised, sorry - encouraged -  to do this - and put past climatological data on their website from 1994 onwards (to keep the old MWR going)  - as a gesture ahead of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow this November.    I've tried to get on with the WOW site but it drives me mad.  

Julian   

[Len W]

The WOW site is a Mickey Mouse site just for those who have a passing interest in the weather.

Len

[Graham Easterling]

As the data we all want to see is from MO observing sites (i.e. the official ones) should we not expect the MO to release this as part of their public service?   (does anyone remember 'public service'  :)  ). Yes, I know people have been asking this for hundreds of years....... I feel that they should be pressurised, sorry - encouraged -  to do this - and put past climatological data on their website from 1994 onwards (to keep the old MWR going)  - as a gesture ahead of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow this November.    I've tried to get on with the WOW site but it drives me mad.  

I agree with all of that. I can't remember when I last looked at WOW.

I've found the EA very helpful in supplying me with rainfall data, at many sites across Cornwall, for recent decades (for free), I might have been lucky getting to the right people! In fact, drifting to another topic rather, several of the sites they gave me data for had been running >30 years, so I was able to draw up this, which I thought interesting.

Because of the significance of convergence along the spine (both sea breeze & frictional causes), if you didn't know about orographic rainfall you'd be pushed to spot it. Proximity to the spine is what stands out. South coast bays (like Penzance & Falmouth) are wetter than the top of the Lizard plateau for instance. Also the well worn phrase 'cloud breaks to the lee of high ground' isn't the dominant factor in Cornwall, even though forecasters love it. The sunniest parts of Cornwall are the north coast & the Lands End peninsula, due in some part to the lack of land based Cu development with a prevailing SW-W wind.

Graham

Penzance