Microlighters

Since the old weathersa site became a paid service, and a rather expensive one for the average weekend pilot, I have battled to find a suitable replacement.

Where do you get your weather info?

I use yr.no. and find it as reliable as any of the others.
good luck.
Vernon.

yr.no works well, but as was mentioned on some post in the past, they use a different mathematical model as our Weathersa.

I use weathersa free general public site to get an idea of morning and afternoon conditions. Then weatherphotos.co.za to see a satelite picture at different times as well as the senoptic chart. Actually, I visit these sites everyday to see how the weather systems develop and pan out, ......... to get a feel for how the systems operate. Together with yr.no your own prediction is normally fairly close for the following day or two.

Longer predictions are impossible, even the people with the fancy mathematical models battle to predict 100% accurate more than two days into the future.

And do not disregard the local knowledge of the weather. Ask anybody who has been at your destination for a few years about the weather and add that info to your broth and then decide to fly or not. eg, if the south-easter is blowing in the Cape, it might rain in Transvaal, or if you see high level cirrus cloud forming streaks north/south over the interior, a cold front is moving in over the Cape and it could bring bad flying weather to Gauteng in the next day or two

It all depends on how far and for how long you want to fly and with what.

then, you could also stick your nose out the window and look up

The more sites you use , the more confused you get. But some of the sites get it right at least twice a week.

Easyplan have a weather module that was developped with weatherSa.
Does anyone have any experience with this?

I had a look at yr.no a few minutes ago. It isn't very detailed. (I like to overcomplicate things)
Accuweather offers more detail, with hour by hour forecasts, but without aviation jargon.

I am keen to hear about the easyweather module.

I find accuweather very good. Also on Ipad Aeroweather is downright awesome and free. Another good one is wunderground.com


D

Bob, I almost religiously use windguru and can tell you its at least 80% accurate. I also like to check the upper winds using VFRplanner (std membership) by clicking on your own or the nearest airfield to you. I simply refuse to use weatherSA as I find it criminal to have to pay for information that SHOULD BE FREE TO PILOTS!!!

Thanks for the replies guys.

I feel the same way Alan.