Portrush weather
Loading live data…Latest for Portrush: Met Office (UKMO model): 15° Overcast · European (ECMWF): 14° Overcast · American (NOAA GFS): 14° Overcast.
The weather map: all three models at once
Met Office, European, American side by side around Portrush and nearby towns.Live rain radar →Next 14 hours
consensus of the three models7-day forecast
where the models agree, and where they splitPortrush is a small town of about 6,684 people in NIR, sitting at 55.2°N in a cool, high-latitude climate zone. Met Office, European, American each forecast Portrush with their own physics, so we line all three up and flag where they disagree. Nearby towns include Portstewart, Coleraine, Ballymoney.
Which forecast is most accurate in the UK?
CheckWeather Score — graded against the weather that actually happened
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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.