Topic: Find most accurate weather data in Europe

[wxfan]

Hello folks,

Please move to a different subforum if it doesn't belong here.

Long story short, I use the app Today Weather for the daily forecast and it lets me choose the data source for the forecast. These include a bunch of national services from all over the world, Open Weather Map, Open-Meteo.com, Accuweather.com, etc. I guess all that's open access.

What drives me crazy is the discrepancy between the different data sources even for short term prediction such as 1-2 days ahead. How can there be such huge discrepancies particularly in terms of rain forecast?
And how do I find the data source that is more reliable for my location and Europe in general?

I have found some websites that work for comparing US-based forecast services but no luck for Europe.

Any suggestions?

[Wooks61]

Have a look at this:

https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=43629.0

I also use :
https://www.ventusky.com/

[wxfan]

Thank you those look interesting, although the compare function is a paid function in SmartMixin.

However my main interest is compare past performance of weather models to see which one is more accurate at my location.

Ventusky is nice but I don't seem to be able to see the different models at once on a table or graph but only on the map where they are not easily comparable. So I am still looking in case someone has different suggestions.

[Wooks61]

And how do I find the data source that is more reliable for my location and Europe in general?

I have found some websites that work for comparing US-based forecast services but no luck for Europe.

Any suggestions?

You could find the location(s) of your nearest reporting stations here:
https://www.ogimet.com/home.phtml.en
  other info sites
https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/gpcc/gpcc
https://www.dwd.de/EN/specialusers/hobbymet/hobbymet_node.html

https://www.ecad.eu/
https://surfobs.climate.copernicus.eu/dataaccess/access_eobs.php

[Wooks61]

Thank you those look interesting, although the compare function is a paid function in SmartMixin.

You could try the free trial of SmartMixin, and then decide if it works for you.
At €9.99 per year I think it is very reasonable.