#hottestdayoftheyear

In the true spirit of Britishness, it's the hottest day of the year and it is time to talk about the weather.
Don't worry, I'm not going to bang on about it being too hot, I'm going to give a few pointers to the various weather apps and websites that I use.

Firstly, why not just pick one source of information? The answer is simple: No one source is ever 100% reliable or accurate.
I've been a sailor for many years, and even as a beginner I realised that watching the local weather forecast on the BBC was usually so unreliable, using this information to decide whether or not to sail could put lives in jeopardy. As a novice sailor I was pointed in the direction of several websites, and advised to check at least two of them before planning a sail.
This still rings true; even if you are inland, the changeable British weather can catch you unawares.

Previously, websites such as the MetOffice and my personal favourite Windguru, were my go-to places for the weather, even using a modest Opera-based browser on my various Nokia handsets.
However, with the advent of smartphones, looking at websites has become more obsolete, so here's a quick round up of the ones that I use and why:

The MetOffice has some pretty decent apps that are fairly consistent across a multitude of devices. Given that the MetOffice is the UK's official weather forecasting service, you would expect it to be pretty accurate, and for the most part it is.
Limitations of the MetOffice apps are mainly down to the locality of weather stations - Mine is a good ten miles away from my location (home and work), which does make a difference. You might be lucky and have weather reported directly from your place of work or home, but I've not found it to be very location specific when travelling around the UK.
The user interface of the MetOffice apps is pretty simple, even though some functionality is lost.

Accuweather (search in your app store) is my main weather app for interest. The mainly American user interface is annoying (you can't select Imperial/metric for individual categories), and I can't stand the widget/Live Tile as it periodically goes through months without updating properly!
However, the Accuweather apps do have some fairly accurate rainfall predictions, and the rainfall radar is second to none.
There are a lot of localities included in this app, but you might have to search by postcode to get the one that you really want - I guess that this is down to the sheer number of locations worldwide that this app can handle. Setting a location as a default location is simple, but getting local updates after this can be tricky.

For Windows Phone, I highly recommend Microsoft Weather. The Live Tile updates accurately and I've found the forecasts to be excellent. On my Windows Phone handsets, I tend to forget about the aforementioned apps and use this almost exclusively, as it is accurate, simple to use and functional.

I have tried many other apps, mainly on Android and Windows Phone, but I'm not a fan of them for various reasons: The usual issues being a lack of truly local forecast/weather reports, as well as inaccuracies with weather forecasts.

Of course, there is always my favourite weather website - Windguru - which can be a pain to view on small-screened devices due to the quantity of data provided, but the GFS weather model that Windguru uses can outdo the MetOffice 90%(?) of the time.