How do YOU check the weather?

[stevefish]

What are the steps you take in knowing what the weather will do on your next fishing trip?

Me, I'm a BOM man, I keep in contact with the 4 day synoptic chart most of the time, all year round, leading up to a trip I look at the forecast wind page to give me hour by hour (more or less) prediction for where I'm going.

This is a winner because say, the coast, harbour and middle harbour can get the wind differently.

And often a look at "latest coastal observations" to see what's happening as I'm leaving bright and early.

Plus keep my eyes open each day, yesterday I saw a plane leaving long contrails, upper atmospheric instability!

What do you look at?

Edited November 21, 2015 by stevefish

[will_l]

I normally use willy weather but that has been starting to let me down on harbour wind. I was wondering what the best forcaster is for wind in the harbour. BOM's Sydney forcast doesn't seem to show much about winds.

[J0nn0]

Finding this getting better results recently

[GoingFishing]

Hahahaha

I use BoM and seabreeze but this weekends looking hard to figure out

[batfishing]

BOM Meteye

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[Cargo05]

tides4fishing and WillyWeather

[Rock&Beach]

BOM Willyweather or Seabreeze

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[JimT]

I use BOM and look outside as well..........types of clouds, movement, direction, high or low....colour of sunrise and senset etc etc etc....just experience basically

Jim......

[rockfisherman]

Seabreeze is my go to site. Has everything thing I need. Rain isn't an issue.

Step 1-see which direction wind is coming from, that determines which location I'll be fishing.

Step 2-check tide, this somewhat determines what time I'll be going.

And off we go.

[bessell1955]

I STICK MY HEAD OUT THE DOOR.

[piratesgold]

I use willy, weatherzone and oz weather, and recon on the common forecast from them all as they are all different. recently I found this bewdy site, updated every 3 hours, click on a spot and get local conditions, zoom out for the whole world

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=149.46,-35.83,3000

[rockfisherman]

I use willy, weatherzone and oz weather, and recon on the common forecast from them all as they are all different. recently I found this bewdy site, updated every 3 hours, click on a spot and get local conditions, zoom out for the whole world

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=149.46,-35.83,3000

Very interesting. This one will get used.

[Swiss_Gizmo]

I use Willyweather and combine it with local knowledge where I can. It sometimes can be out, but generally I find its accurate.

[Commodore]

I use the BOM report which is quite good but sometimes do not get the weather changes right, especially the wind speed. I also use windguru which is O/K as a cross check. The main thing is to prepare for anything and use the BOM only as a guide .

Tide4fishing - Sydney is a good site for general fishing/weather information.