Ballycastle weather
Loading live data…Latest for Ballycastle: Met Office (UKMO model): 14° Overcast · European (ECMWF): 13° Overcast · American (NOAA GFS): 13° Overcast.
The weather map: all three models at once
Met Office, European, American side by side around Ballycastle and nearby towns.Live rain radar →Next 14 hours
consensus of the three models7-day forecast
where the models agree, and where they splitBallycastle is a small town of about 5,566 people in NIR, sitting at 55.2°N in a cool, high-latitude climate zone. Met Office, European, American each forecast Ballycastle with their own physics, so we line all three up and flag where they disagree. Nearby towns include Ballymoney, Portrush, Coleraine.
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The forecasts Britons check
The Met Office runs Britain's own open model, so its data sits right in the comparison above. BBC Weather and AccuWeather keep theirs closed, so we link you to them. Good news: BBC is moving back to the Met Office model, so it'll join the comparison too.