Terms, privacy and data credits

Where the weather comes from

Contains Met Office data. Forecasts, observations, warnings and forecast maps are from the Met Office DataHub, used under licence. © Crown copyright.

Health alerts come from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) weather-health alerting system, for England only. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We show their alert level and link to their advice; we don't change it.

Phone line: if you call Dial-a-forecast, we don't record the call or keep your number. Our phone provider (Twilio) keeps its own call logs for billing. Daily message: if this opens, we will store only your email address and area, and you can unsubscribe in one click.

Flooded road reports (business feature): we save only the type of spot, "flooded now" or "often floods", the time and a spot rounded to about 100 metres. No names or device details. Flood warnings contain Environment Agency data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Place search uses postcodes.io (contains OS and Royal Mail data, © Crown copyright and database right) and Open-Meteo geocoding.

Audio is read by an AI voice from ElevenLabs, using only the words shown on screen.

Privacy

Your place is kept on your device only. No account is needed and we don’t track you.

Reader reports (“Is it raining where you are?”) store only the weather you picked, the time and a rough area about 5 km across. No names, accounts or exact locations. Your device remembers when you last reported so you can only send one every 30 minutes.

Comparison links open our sister site, EV Charge Compare. Its privacy terms apply to answers and enquiries you give there. The Forecast does not collect tariff comparison answers or business energy enquiries. Bill estimates use read-only price feeds, not your comparison answers.

Forecast the Cap: your email, guess and confirmation are private. One entry per email per announcement, with a confirmation link that expires within a day or when entries close. We show your first name or initials on the leaderboard only if you choose that separately. Entry confirmation is not consent to marketing. There are no stakes, paid entries or cash prizes.

Christmas snow reports show only a rough area and time. A random device code helps limit repeat reports to one per half-hour; it is not your name or email. Spotter reports require an active private invite. Reports are not official Met Office confirmation.

Share Your Sky photos

Photo reports are off until the editor opens them. Your photo is compressed to at most 1600 pixels and re-saved without camera metadata or GPS tags before storage. Location is rounded to about 1 km; public photos show only the town. One-off location permission is optional. No account is needed.

Your reported photo time, weather choice, optional note and credit are kept with your consent. Photos cannot prove their own time or location and do not make forecasts. AI suggests weather and checks for faces, plates and unsafe content; you confirm the weather, and the editor checks the privacy-blurred photo before approving it. AI can miss details. Children, identifiable homes and unsafe or driving photos are rejected. Nothing is public before approval.

The image is sent privately to our AI service for this check. Unblurred photos are server-only and removed after a successful check. Rejected photos and unfinished submissions are removed after seven days. Approved photos remain until you or the editor delete them. We may use approved photos on the site and social media under your submission consent, with your chosen credit.

Keep the private deletion link shown after sending. It removes the photo and its private forecast comparison at any time, even when reports are switched off. Email deletion receipts are not available until our sender is set up; we do not collect an email yet. We cannot erase copies already downloaded or shared by others.

Approved photos are linked privately to the cached Met Office forecast for the reported place and hour. No temperature is inferred from a photo. These checks never change forecasts automatically. Best-photo picks are prepared for social sharing; weekly newsletter sending is not set up.

Use

The Forecast puts forecasts into plain words. Forecasts can be wrong. For safety decisions, check official Met Office warnings.

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