Weather or not to build today

[ToughButterCup]

Some will remember my little tussle with the weather . And while the weather was not to blame, I had simply assumed that July did not bring turbulent easterly gales.  Once the mess had been cleared up, I started to think about the lessons learned.

One conclusion was that I should keep a closer eye on the weather forecast. After ferreting around for a good while I have been using two Apps (applications, or programs)  The Met Office Weather App and Windy.com 

 

And while they are both excellent in different ways, neither allows me to define my own alerts. The Met Office App produces  excellent warnings, windy.com provides a huge amount of detail - really interesting to view.

 

But in the way of things, I get my head down in whatever I'm doing and often forget to look at the forecast. And when I do, I look for

• easterly gales
• freezing overnight
• strong north westerly gales

Is there an app which allows you to set your own parameters  for an alert? What I really mean is a free app of course.....

 

 

 

 

[SteamyTea]

Sounds like you are really after a weather prediction app, can't say I have seen one.

You could link into a raw feed and make your own.

Can't be that hard.  Might not work on all web browsers though, so will be useless

[Declan52]

Most android phones have a weather app that you can put on your home page. Looks like this.

 

[SteamyTea]

Does not give alerts though, and that is what Ian is after.

 

You could try looking at some surfing apps, they are a lazy bunch of xxxxx and probably have already written something.

 

http://www.surfline.com/surf-science/how-to-create-a-surf-alert_22491/

Edited December 4, 2017 by SteamyTea

[Mikey_1980]

Dark Sky will allow you to set alerts, not sure if they have all the options thay you want that but it will cost you a couple of quid. 

Edited December 4, 2017 by Mikey_1980