Brent
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It's actually warmer in Utah than TX. LOLAnother insane run View attachment 72937
Good news is next week at this time the ensembles will be taking us into March and we will have the end in sight. Bring on the warmth.
I'll let Brick know.Side note: if there are any NWS lurkers on here and would like a met tag, let one of us staff members know in private message.
These model swings are crazy to me. I’m glad this didn’t happen back in 2014 when I first really started to dive deep into meteorology.. I used to hang my emotions on every model run.. I would of for sure developed bi-polar disorder, good thing I have learned my lesson: never keep your heart too close to the models (& real life ones too) just when you think it’s the one and it’s going to happen.. the rug comes flying as if a ghost pulled it something you couldn’t predict could happen... now you are left there with a broken heart and a dusty floor.. lmao
Well, the ultimate problem in meteorology depends on two conditions being satisfied: “the present state of the atmosphere must be characterized as accurately as possible. The intrinsic laws, according to which the subsequent states develop out of the preceding ones, must be known” this is ultimate an initial value problem... Bjerknes does have an approach to this.. too long to summarize thus I present to you below (source: Atmospheric Data Analysis by Roger Daley, used in my data assimilation class)Who are we to try to tell mother nature what it's going to do anyways. I bet if we put the majority of our focus into developing models/algorithms for no longer than day 3, we might could do better. I guess we really just need a "hint" for the medium-long range globally for preparation.. but with so many resolution upgrades and errors that compound as time goes on in the forecast, whats the point. Haha.
Look up Ed Lorenz’s chaos theory.. pretty much as of right now it’s impossible to get an accurate forecast past 2 weeks.. there essentially a ceiling there.. think butterfly effect = tornado in brick’s backyard..Good point. If you take a bad snapshot, then what's the point of generating a forecast off erroneous data!