Round here (Blackpool) according to the forecast Saturday is looking like the only flyable day in the next fortnight. Moist and unseasonably windy.
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All week AirData UAV has been predicting ‘Good to fly’ on Thursday; now we’re here and it’s all RED until Saturday 
Airdata is hopeless at predicting weather, flown locally in flat calm weather and Airdata showing all red, and have had good to fly when it’s been blowing a gale. I just use bbc weather for forecast and local airport weather station for current conditions.
Ahhh ok, thank you - I’ve been relying on it too much I’m going to see if there is anything at Biggin Hill airport that might be more helpful 
This ..
Had a girlfriend like that once…
Most of them are…
Fortunately for me I plug into a live wind sensor that updates every 5 minutes at my favourite flying location via a website from a company called Richard Paul Russell Ltd who manufacture weather instruments.
They have a live data page but obviously it’s mainly coastal locations but some inland as well. However their live feeds has saved me many a wasted trip.
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Actually my Mini 3 Pro seems just fine in rain - when you want a steam train and it isn’t going to wait, a bit of rain didn’t harm anyone 
Of course I was standing beneath my open boot - so was trying to keep dry!
Mind you, probably wouldn’t recommend it often…
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I dont mind a wee bit of guid Scots drizzle, this stuff was stoatin’ aff the pavement!
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For local weather I look at this, it’s someone’s weather station just up the road from me https://batleyweather.co.uk/
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I had to laugh at the disclaimer on that site
“ATTENTION: Never base important decisions on this or any weather information obtained from the Internet.”
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It reached 24.2 °c here in Wiltshire this afternoon 
And bloody humid at 75.7% this morning taking the dog for a walk 
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Does Buddy have a “walkies-talkies” .. and you tell him where to go. 
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16deg C, in Blackpool (brief spike of 17), feels colder in the stiff breeze. First day of summer on Sunday, feels more like autumn.
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Ordinary rain is probably not much threat to the internals of a drone, though it’s bad news on the camera lens! The thing to avoid is the fine, penetrating stuff; mist, drizzle, fog, cloud, and especially sea spray which is corrosive as well. It’ll get in everywhere, and cause prop-tip icing below about 38f. I would land immediately if caught in a thunderstorm, for fear of the drone being hit by lightning and that the sheer weight of that sort of torrential downpour would probably bring the drone down anyway!
A distant storm cell, towering anvil-topped cumulo-nimbus and black underneath, is highly photogenic, especially if you can catch a few flashes, and I have a lightning-recording map app (‘Lightning’)which I can use to tell me when to bring the drone home because it’s getting too close (distance not humidity). 10 miles sounds like a sensible margin. This sort of thing is where a second phone is useful!
For the next 7 days my forecasts are for either uncomfortably marginal (or stronger) winds and/or clouding over in the evenings (which are my preferred ‘golden light’ flying times). I quite like ‘interesting’ clouds but this sort of 100% cover is usually bland and depressing horizon-to-horizon nimbus clouds. An exception (for now, anyway) is Monday, and I have my fingers crossed. Forecasts are what they are and local real-time observation is my final arbiter of ‘fly/not fly’!
I find I need a variety of forecasts to give me the spread of information that I want, and I agree that Airdata is u/s as a forecaster. Quick glance is usually UAV forecast, longer range & more accurate is Ventusky, Weather 24 for longer range, and I like Windfinder because it shows high and low tide times. But mostly it’s a quick squiz at UAV & Ventusky. I’m sure others have different favourites but those work for me.
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Nice looking pooch. 
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I look outside 
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