In reply to peebles boy:
yr.no has been completely off recently, even here in Norway. 2 weekends ago I had to bail from a mountain after I'd been knocked over twice by gusts of at least 25m/s, while yr.no was saying it was 2m/s.
this past weekend it forecast snow and cloud, and it was sunshine and blue skies pretty much the whole weekend. Which is great if you're there obviously, but it was clear that many people didn't bother to make the 3hr drive because they had been put off by the negative forecast. I've been on 11 day trips in the mountains this year, and yr has only been correct once, although mostly in my favour, so I'm not complaining too much, but the forecast does influence my decisions.
I suppose I should learn to read weather maps.