That's easy to do. Want to have a picnic? Look outside. If rain, no picnic. If no rain, have picnic.
Meteorologists should get paid on commission
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That's easy to do. Want to have a picnic? Look outside. If rain, no picnic. If no rain, have picnic.
That's easy to do. Want to have a picnic? Look outside. If rain, no picnic. If no rain, have picnic.
Yeah, but it's nice to know if the weather tomorrow will line up well with your plans. And, as others have said, the 24-hour predictions are generally reasonably accurate.
That's easy to do. Want to have a picnic? Look outside. If rain, no picnic. If no rain, have picnic.
...plan outdoor activities for days later in the week. As a baseball fan, I would think you would be somewhat aware of this concept.
My umbrella is the ultimate predictor of weather. Whenever I take it with me, I can guarantee that I will never use it as the weather will be dry. When I'm without it, it always rains.
The tornadoes we endured a couple of weeks ago here, in Central Oklahoma, were literally predicted to the half-hour almost 8 days in advance.
Good for the weathermen. Sometimes weather behaves more predictably than others. Also, some types of weather are more predictable than others.
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To be fair, your forecast is for the generalized local area. The source of the weather station for your area could be receiving rainshowers.
That's easy to do. Want to have a picnic? Look outside. If rain, no picnic. If no rain, have picnic.
Doesn't work that way here. Tasmania is notorious for being able to get 'all four seasons in one day".
If I am only going out for a couple of hours I will look at the mountain. It is a good indicator of whether I need to wear a coat or not. I can tell by how low the snow is how cold it is outside, if I can't see the mountain there is a good chance it will rain within the next couple of hours.
Indeed. The vast majority of weather stations are located at airports, so depending on where the nearest airport is, you could be receiving weather information from 10 or 15 kilometres away; certainly enough to account for microclimatic differences.
Uh, no. If I'm going to meet someone in the city I like to know what the weather will be. If it's supposed to snow then odds are I'll make other plans.
To be fair, Oklahoma is literally a weather laboratory. After all, the National Weather Service had the meteorological center built on the OU campus
The weather-guessers here have decades of experience as well as decades of data used to build algorithms that analyze probable weather patterns and conditions. The data from every storm that has passed is processed, analyzed, and used with all past data in order to aid in future forecasting.And to think that back in the 1940's, the Government didn't want TV stations issuing tornado warnings for fear of "needlessly alarming the public" and threatened local TV stations with fines and jail terms. The weathermen won out, saved lives, and made the Government look stupid (which isn't too difficult to do anyway).
One day, my neighbour and I were sitting on the steps of her home when it started to rain quite heavily. We rushed into my neighbour's back yard to get her dry washing off the line only to find that it wasn't raining in her backyard at all. In this case about 10 meters made a difference.
The airport is less than 5 miles away. I'd be able to tell if it was storming.
What's the identifier? I'll interpret the METAR, and you can relay whether it seems consistent.
