Knowing what the weather will do is always very important for the plein air painter, so I thought I would throw out a quick plug for my favorite meteorology website: Il meteo.
I don’t know where they get their data from, but it has worked great for me in Italy, Croatia, Holland, Ireland and California over the past few years. I check it always before deciding what and where to paint.
They say little children who lie grow up to be meteorologists, but twice I’ve won bets when fellow painters didn’t believe my weather prediction source could be so accurate.
It can be set to various languages, and clicking on the times on the left will give an hour by hour prediction, which can be very useful.
I’d be curious what other websites artists use as well.
In Norway there is a fantastic site called yr.no. It is perhaps even more detailed than Il Meteo. Here’s today’s forecast for Bergen http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Hordaland/Bergen/Bergen/hour_by_hour_detailed.html
It covers the world beyond Norway too.
‘Yr’, as you maybe know, is the Norwegian word for a kind of thin drizzle of rain.