Thread: New weather site

So, serious question. What makes one weather website better than the other?

All my hunting buddies down in the central North Island swear by yr.no, but how can a Norwegian website be better at forecasting the weather in NZ than our own Metservice?

Do they have their own meteorologists pouring over the weather maps and deciding well this is what is going to do? Or do they have better algorithms in a big computer somewhere? Is it really better i.e. more accurate? The first time I looked at the Raetihi forecast on yr.no, sometime ago now, I worked out it was actually the Waiouru forecast, which can be completely different on that side of the mountain.

My mates say "oh well it looks at more local weather stations" than the Metservice. What would a weather station tell you about the weather in the future? It can only tell you what happened in the past surely.

All day the forecast on the Metservice website for that area has been different to yr.no. The Met service is forecasting worse weather.

Any weather experts out there that can explain this to me, it would be appreciated.