Weather forecasts for the North Staffs Sailing Club Area

Weather forecasts vary, depending on the source of the data and the forecaster interpreting the data. It may pay to check several forcasts to see if they all agree!

The following sites give useful information for sailors - wind, rain and sun condtions over several days or a week or so:

This site offers forecasts for a range of places, which they call 'SPOTS', which you choose from a drop-down menu. The first time you visit the site, you are referred to as a 'guest', and only offered a list of publically-available 'spots' - two local ones which give a good idea of the weather in the North Staffs area are Blithfield and Foremark Reservoir. If you want to see their forecast for the North Staffs Sailing Club, you could register yourself as a new user, or: use the 'Spot Search', enter 'North Staffs Sailing Club' in the 'Search Spot' box and 'nssc' in the'User' box and click 'Search'. When you get the single search result, click 'Forecast'. You may find you get straight to this forecast as soon as you reach the WindGuru site, or you may have to search for it every time. It may help to check whether you have disabled 'cookies' on your computer for security reasons - a cookie helps the site remember what you wanted to see last time you visited.

Others to try:


Gives a 7-day forecast for the Sailing Club (ST9) area.



A basic forecast up to 16 days ahead, for the Leek area.


Gives windspeed and gusts for the next 3 days, for the Leek area.


Shows a map of the UK with wind arrows: hover your mouse over any arrow to see predicted wind speeds for the next week.


Want to see how strong the wind is NOW? Private weather station in Chesterton.


General forecasts from the Met Office.

Select 'Stoke-on-Trent' for local 5-day forecast.


The next 5 days in the Stoke area, according to the BBC.