There are weather sites and then there’s Metcheck. Not only a fabbo rain radar display like the one above with direction, speed and location in real time, but SMS rain alerts to your mobile phone for 10p a go if rain is falling within 30 km of you, a BBQ forecast and even a tube (subway folks, OK?) temperature guide. Simply awesome resource.

‘Not only is it fully customisable, allowing you to schedule the alerts, change the sensitivity detection and location, but you can enable Collision Detection Technology which will look downwind to see whether any rain is heading your way, if it is, then it will tell you how far away it is, in what direction and will estimate the time it will reach you.’