Do we go, or wait a few days

[Casper46]

I have been trying to fathom some of the French weather forecasts regarding wind speeds. We are due to leave Yorkshire tomorrow morning ( supposed to be a gap in the weather!), then tunnel tomorrow afternoon, or if held up en route, tunnel Thursday morning.
We then have a steady two days travel to get to our house. Has anyone got a weather forecast for the Rouen/ Chartres / Tours route for the next few days. The option is to stay at home in Yorkshire for a while, but the river is creeping up the field at the bottom of the garden, our hamlet in France is the highest point in the Charente Maritime, so it's wet feet or wind blown hair.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Try Ventusky. I have the paid app but you can just look at their website. You can press the “play” button to go forward in time looking at the weather forecast overlaid on the map. You can select to see precipitation, wind speed temperature etc.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Current display for wind speed

 

[Minxy]

Venturesky is great (we use the free app) but I believe to get the wind speed forecasting you have to have the paid for version, on the free version you just see the arrows moving at various speeds with no figure.

 

[Nirvanauk]

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[Fenman]

I find this site is good: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/fr/weather/normandie/rouen

 

[Phill D]

weather front "DENNIS"! is arriving Saturday into Sunday with 50 /60 mph winds including north west France. dropping to 20 mph come monday.

 

[Speve]

Venturesky is great (we use the free app) but I believe to get the wind speed forecasting you have to have the paid for version, on the free version you just see the arrows moving at various speeds with no figure.

Never paid for mine? Have you tried the icon on top right? if you touch a drop down list appears with different items??

 

[Clarky]

Current display for wind speed
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From the position on the Ventusky map it looks like you’re in lovely La Mailleraye.
Could I possibly be correct?

Richard.

 

[Pete5996]

Getting wet and windy later in the week....

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[Riverbankannie]

From the position on the Ventusky map it looks like you’re in lovely La Mailleraye.
Could I possibly be correct?

Richard.

Your detective skills are not working today, I’m home in chilly, windy Bristol.
The orange dot is Rouen.

 

[Minxy]

Never paid for mine? Have you tried the icon on top right? if you touch a drop down list appears with different items??

Yup, the only options are:

Temperature​

Perceived temperature​

Precipitation​

Radar​

To get wind speed etc you have to have the premium 'layers'.

 

[Clarky]

Your detective skills are not working today, I’m home in chilly, windy Bristol.
The orange dot is Rouen.

I should have looked closer, I can see it’s Rouen now.
Oh well, never mind. I thought you might be ship spotting instead of aircraft spotting.

Richard.

 

[TUCANO]

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[TUCANO]

Nirvanauk
You have to be the oldest funster on the forum here if I am reading your Avatar correctly, have you really had motorhoming experience since 1846

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[Speve]

Yup, the only options are:

Temperature​

Perceived temperature​

Precipitation​

Radar​

To get wind speed etc you have to have the premium 'layers'.

I must have paid the £2.99 for the full menu then but it’s worth it I think?

 

[Casper46]

Thanks everyone.I have downloaded Ventusky, it looks like Friday is going to be the better day for travelling through France.

 

[Jewellbags]

Watch those viaducts in the A19 !

 

[Lenny HB]

We are off on Sunday on the Newhaven midday ferry, fingers crossed. Don't mind a rough crossing but don't want to be delayed.

 

[Minxy]

We are off on Sunday on the Newhaven midday ferry, fingers crossed. Don't mind a rough crossing but don't want to be delayed.

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[Nirvanauk]

Nirvanauk
You have to be the oldest funster on the forum here if I am reading your Avatar correctly, have you really had motorhoming experience since 1846

Well, it feels like t the way my bones creak.....

 

[Markas]

I have been trying to fathom some of the French weather forecasts regarding wind speeds. We are due to leave Yorkshire tomorrow morning ( supposed to be a gap in the weather!), then tunnel tomorrow afternoon, or if held up en route, tunnel Thursday morning.
We then have a steady two days travel to get to our house. Has anyone got a weather forecast for the Rouen/ Chartres / Tours route for the next few days. The option is to stay at home in Yorkshire for a while, but the river is creeping up the field at the bottom of the garden, our hamlet in France is the highest point in the Charente Maritime, so it's wet feet or wind blown hair.

I use tameteo.com - their hour by hour forecasts also include wind speeds (average and maximum gust) and find them pretty accurate.

 

[Shrimp]

We have just got onto Montreuil Aire (only 3 of us here all English plates) the only strong winds we had travelling today was on the Dartford bridge.
Here on the Aire it’s quiet, dry and not very cold!

 

[Allanm]

We use meteofrance.com. It’s the French weather forecast, in French but if you open it in Google Chrome it will translate for you.
Watch the video too, it’s in French obviously but you see the charts and can work out whats happening quite easily.

 

[Markas]

We have just got onto Montreuil Aire (only 3 of us here all English plates) the only strong winds we had travelling today was on the Dartford bridge.
Here on the Aire it’s quiet, dry and not very cold!

Camping la fontaine des clercs- the other side of town, below la citadelle - is more sheltered and has full facilities. Reception is open until 6pm but the patron lives on site in the big UK-style static & is ok with slightly late arrivals.

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[Markas]

Just thinking... if it's any consolation, while we've had some strong winds here, it doesn't seem to have been as bad as in the UK recently.

 

[Casper46]

We ‘ bit the bullet’ and left home 08.30 yesterday, not a bad trip to tunnel, 250 miles, except for missing new slip to Cambridge Services. 14.20 train and aimed for Neufchâtel Aire. It was full so we are on our own at Mesnieres. It’s very windy right now, so we will sit it out for another couple of hours. Thanks for all your suggestions re weather forecasts they are very handy.

 

[Shrimp]

Quiet night at Montreuil.
Strong winds and driving rain this morning but all gone quiet now 9.19 am. overcast and grey. Not very cold, definitely milder than Bedford.
Weather forecast according to Meteoconsult very poor for Normandy for the next week or so.
We are going to head west I think, see if we can find some sun!

 

[Casper46]

Just had a bumpy ride to Marboue and it’s not much calmer parked up, at least the river is still where it should be. I had visions of it being up to the road. We have spent a night in the past with water covering the pétanque pitch. There is one other MH here. braver than us his/her sat dish is up.