Weather Information

The club runs its own  weather station on the Malvern hills, the kit is installed and maintained by volunteers, so while it may be a useful guide, the service availability and accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

The station is situated on the top of the Malvern ridge at the Wyche Cutting. Though it is lower than the Pinnacle Hill take off, the Wyche has a venturi effect so wind speeds are much the same in an easterly. In a westerly wind speed will show a bit lower than Pinnacle and about 50% lower than the Beacon as the ground to the west of the station does not drop away very quickly and has some large trees in the way. The wind direction indicates correctly.

Please use this service and provide feed-back (good or bad!) to anyone on the committee, in particular Bryan Hindle who has put a lot of effort into making the system work. With this information the service will continue to be improved.

• The club weather station at the Wyche cutting.
• The station location (Open link in Google Earth)

Other Sites

These links are the sites that may be useful.

• Malvern Wells weather station (1.5km south of the Kettle Sings landing field)
• Bromsberrow weather station - Another set of instruments for local conditions.
• Raintoday/ Excellent for seeing what direction the rain is coming from and how long it will take to get to you. Animation of the last two hours in ¼ hour steps.
• UK Wind Map - XC Weather site providing current wind speed, directions, temperature, etc. Mostly from airports and aerodromes. Good forecasts for several days ahead.
• Theyr: Forecasts for may countries including the UK. Shows wind, rainfall, cloud cover and temperature for a few days ahead. A very good service, with some free data but mostly available by subscription only.
• Metcheck - Selections can be made by region and over various time periods: Predictions are given for every few hours. Despite the over animated graphics it seems quite good.
• Charts - Charts for the days ahead sourced from the UK Met office.
• WunderMap from Weather Underground shows local weather station results from your selected area. Can be customised to suit your needs - e.g. English measurements instead of Metric.
• Weather Online - Lots of good stuff if you can work it all out!
  • Winds at 10m height.
  • The latest Satelite picture
• Accuweather Hourly forecasts for several days ahead - Just enter the nearest Postcode to where you want to fly.
• Meteorologica live lightening map. Useful but NEVER rely on it for safety.
• Weather channel - Rather a lot of pop-up adverts but seems to have a wealth of info. It can show hourly predictions for specific towns and seems to work well (e.g. Malvern)

• NOTAMS - You do check them don't you? Not really weather related but important none the less.

Some webcams:

• Forest of Dean facing NW towards the Welsh hills showing sky.
• Chippenham, Wiltshire School. Doesn't show hills or sky but useful for seeing if sunny further South.
• The Shrine! Rhossili and Llangennith beach, from the Worms Head hotel.

• Another Rhosilli camera