Weather forecasts for night shoots

I personally use Google and type in hourly weather to where I may be heading, not be caught out as of yet!!!
 
I find that you should listen to any weather forecast, divide it by ten, multiply it by the fourth number in your banks PIN, take away 13 and the throw it all in the bin and wait to see what the weather does.

Alternatively seaweed works well, or a pine cone.

Of course I live in Cornwall on the lee of a high hill and we have our own micro-climate wherein the weather forecast is a generalism at best, a work of fiction at worst.
 
I tend to work on the wisdom that if it's a warm night (8c + for me) that the sky will be quite hazy. Frost is also generally a good indicator that it will be a clear night.

James
 
ShinySideUp said:
I find that you should listen to any weather forecast, divide it by ten, multiply it by the fourth number in your banks PIN, take away 13 and the throw it all in the bin and wait to see what the weather does.

Alternatively seaweed works well, or a pine cone.

Of course I live in Cornwall on the lee of a high hill and we have our own micro-climate wherein the weather forecast is a generalism at best, a work of fiction at worst.
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I have similiar living between the see and hills. Natiaonl waether forecasts are a waste of time for our area too as they usually miss us out totally as they loop around us. For me looking out of the window helps a lot.

Try this though
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/...&fcTime=1416463200&zoom=8&lon=-3.59&lat=54.55
 
I spent months collecting different websites that show hour by hour forecast graphs or at least a breakdown of morning noon afternoon and evening. Dump any that give one forecast for the whole day. Bookmark each one on it's 3 day forecast page. And check at least 5 different ones to get an idea of reliability. Strangely they don't all seem to get their data from the same place.
 
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@alf, how did you manage the colour in that? I took a photo by moonlight the other week (clear sky too) and it looked like a martian landscape rather than a cliff face!
 
i use the homeanddry app, it has satletite and ir cloud for the whol eof the uk, so you can work out wheres going to be clear...
scope nights is also good, but its currently broken (dev trying to fix it for the latest ios update)
 
vtrjames said:
@alf, how did you manage the colour in that? I took a photo by moonlight the other week (clear sky too) and it looked like a martian landscape rather than a cliff face!
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Sorry I cannot offer much as shooting auto WB this is pretty much what I got. In ACR it is showing pretty much daylight setting of 5250 K and tint +10.

When I first showed it was suggested moonlight is more red than my shot shows look here

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/wasdale-by-moonlight.558821/

Here is an earlier effort different camera but affected more by light polution so needed more adjustment I recall

Moonlit parton beach 5 by alf.branch, on Flickr
 
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I quite like Accuweather.
They have an hour by hour prediction which I find reasonably accurate.
I don't trust any weather site to be accurate more than about 6-8 hours ahead.
 
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