Hi folks,
As a weather geek who has been studying this weather stuff at uni for nearly 10 years (I'm nearly finished!) and running forecast models I feel duty bound to point out that todays 5-day forecast is as good as a 2-day forecast was 20 years ago. I'll omit the details about how good the 2-day forecasts were 20 years ago.......
Anyways, I though I would list a couple o sites that might be useful for you all:
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/ewalleur.html Penn State E-wall for Europe. My personal rule of thumb - always trust the ECMWF.
http://www.meteox.co.uk - European weather radar.
I'll try and dig some more out, the European met agencies aren't particularly forthcoming with free data nowadays.
Cheers,
Gareth.