Cloudscape

Airfield Weather

Bicester airfield current weather conditions - the weather station has been upgraded and now displays the local weather, updated every few seconds.   It is hoped that a webcam will be added shortly.
More details for other areas, however, 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. And a good start for learning about weather is Tom Bradbury's
Meterological Guide for Beginning Cross-country Glider Pilots and Cloud-Watching

Dunstable Weather RASP viewer for UK
Nympsfield Weather Met Office Current Rain Radar
Lasham Weather Met Office IR Sat Image
BBC Weather Met Office Vis Sat Image
Meteoblue UK Synoptic
XCWeather Bedford Sounding (click on the pause button!)
US Weather Squadron (use the little square buttons to control the looping) Meteox Rain Radar Left click the animation and it zooms, adding town names, thus making it easier to identify problem areas.
  Meteox Visible Sat (better than the Met. Office)
For IR view, click the little red eye.
Webcams - large list (WeatherJack's) Webcams with map positions
(always check the image date and time)
  BBC list of web cams
(very much a lucky-dip sort of list)

 

Finally, what gliding web site would be complete without a link to WeatherJack? (Answers on a postcard to...) More importantly, you should look at his collection of weather resources and the tutorials he presents to expand your knowledge of weather forecasting (half-way down the forecast page, just below the Other Weather sites section).