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Airfield Weather

Details for nearby areas can be found if you use Skylink's latest weather link, you can zoom in to a general area, and view each site's equivalent current weather page. (Calculated cloud base uses the standard formula.)
Weather forecasts can be obtained from the same source as well - but check the wind speed units.

Bicester weather gives forecasts which include hour by hour details, with dew points, humidity and percentage chance of rain.
The Met Office gives local forecasts, but note that the gusts experienced are usually about 20% less than predicted.

GlideMet, aka WeatherDan, gives forecasts for Bicester airfield and Southern England. With the arrival of the soaring season, Dan is now including soaring forecasts, occasionally.

The following are useful links to weather forecasts for the airfield. In summer use them to assess the cross-country potential of the day. At other times, use them to assess whether or not it is flyable.

Dunstable Weather RASP viewer for UK
Nympsfield Weather Met Office Current Rain Radar - Meteox rain is better.
Lasham Weather Met Office IR Sat Image
BBC Weather Met Office Vis Sat Image
Meteoblue UK Synoptic-Met Office also Synoptic
XCWeather Meteo Blue - various met services
US Weather Squadron (the little square buttons control the looping) Meteox Rain Radar Left click the animation in north Wales and it zooms, adds town names, and more details.
Metcheck aviation Meteox Visible Sat (better than Met. Office, includes IR)
Weather commerce - lots of maps Meteo Group - interesting weather maps and other things
rssWeather - actuals from some nearby airfields

WeatherOnline - lots of data, big site, some "expert" data

WeatherWeb.Net - Lots of useful info, from a pro weatherman
Webcams - large list (WeatherJack's) Webcams with map positions (always check the image date and time, note that there may be problems with this link)
  BBC list of web cams
(very much a lucky-dip sort of list)

Online course in meteorology

Another Met course

 Short intro to Met for pilots

 

Finally, what gliding web site would be complete without a link to WeatherJack? (Answers on a postcard to...). Lots of good sites are linked to on that page. Equally important, you should look at his collection of weather resources and tutorials to expand your knowledge of weather forecasting.