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"Accurate" German weather forecasts on line

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:09 am
by Big Benn
Anyone know of a fairly accurate German on line weather forecast?

I use http://www.wetterspiegel.de but find they can be way out on temperatures.

I need one to get a view a few days ahead as I've got a bit hooked on winter hiking and would like to do a very short notice trip to Tegernsee later this month, but only if the weather is going to be suitable. Got loads of airmiles burning away in my pocket!

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:56 am
by Gangolf Haub
www.wetter.de. I offer no guarantees for their accuracy.

Deutscher Wetterdienst - they are accurate - being the offical weather agency in Germany - but they don't give detailed predictions. I guess they know that micro weather can't be accurately predicted anyway.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:05 am
by Lukas Kunze
www.wetter.com has mostly accurate forecasts.
Additionally you may use the (german) page of the OEAV and their weather forecast is very accurate.

I usually use a combination of OEAV and wetter.com.
Cheers Lukas

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:17 pm
by Big Benn
Thanks guys. I'll use those sites.

Not looking for accurate micro weather forecasts, but enough detail for a few days ahead to decide if it's worth dragging all my winter hiking kit from home to Bavaria for a few days!

Weather in Bavaria

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:56 pm
by desainme
Rumaging the net finds

http://ows.public.sembach.af.mil/

is from the U.S. Airforce and tells quite a bit including weather in Nurnberg and Garmisch.
There are quite a few frontal maps here and air flow at various levels in the atmosphere.

Wunderground is a pretty good all purpose weather site too.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:43 pm
by Big Benn
http://www.wetter.de seems pretty good. I've been looking at it's short term forecasts and comparing them with the actual readings at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on http://alpspitze.de/wetterz/WETTER1.HTM

PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:47 am
by Goldie_Oz
Try www.metvuw.com/forecast/

Although this is primarily a New Zealand site, James also provides 6 hourly rainfall forecasts for seven days (although up to 3 days is most accurate - I've never found these to be wrong) for Europe, Australia, the UK and Ireland and the World. The most useful website I've ever used for bushwalking and climbing (present websites excepted).