Met office.

[BUSMANMARK]

Hi all went on the met office website today it said 9oclock clear skies over portland so got the scope out to cool down and....yep clear as a bell not a cloud in sight great views MOON,VENUS,JUPITER,, ORION NEBULA, MARS and just as they said it would cloud over at 12 just brought the scope in they got that right too will check that site every day from now on. DARK SKY,S.:hello2:

[Carbon Brush]

You might find it useful to access the aviation sector of the Met Office site.

In there you will find TAFs, terminal area forecasts. These are produced by meteorologists at local airfields, using of course local knowledge. You will get probabilty of rain, degree of cloud cover. Wind speed and gusts. All good stuff for deciding whether to set up for the evening. The only down side is the forecast is written in a code, rather than plain English. But there is a decode page!

[mallorcasaint]

You also get astronomy forecasts on Metcheck. Very handy!

[perrin6]

so miracles do happen then !!

[Beyond_Vision]

I would go by the satellite images either on the Met Office page or Sat24.com. You can get a good idea if cloud is heading your way. The rain radar images on the metoffice page is also handy.

[Squagnut]

Yeh, I always use the satelllite images - I find the ones which show an animated view of Europe's skies for the last 24 hrs are most useful - they cover a large swathe of the Atlantic too.