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Whatever. The factors and patterns that used to bring us snow don't work out as much anymore. Climate change has screwed it all up.Incorrect
Whatever. The factors and patterns that used to bring us snow don't work out as much anymore. Climate change has screwed it all up.Incorrect
Whatever. The factors and patterns that used to bring us snow don't work out as much anymore. Climate change has screwed it all up.
Yep long winter ahead. just takes one storm to make a southern winter.crappy pattern - we've been there before. they don't last forever. we'll get our due eventually
IncorrectEven when the pattern is supposedly good based on what's happened in the past it still doesn't actually produce snow here as often as it used to. That be the facts.
You say this every year. But we really haven't had many "good" patterns for snow in a long time. Just because you hear people on here talking about a favorable index doesn't mean that it's a good pattern. There are lots of people who do know what a good pattern is for snow. To say that we don't know what a good pattern is is just incorrect.Even when the pattern is supposedly good based on what's happened in the past it still doesn't actually produce snow here as often as it used to. That be the facts.
Incorrectcrappy pattern - we've been there before. they don't last forever. we'll get our due eventually
Yep long winter ahead. just takes one storm to make a southern winter.
FixedHuffman not quite as bullish on January cold. Warning shots. Or shall we call them warming shots?
Let’s fire up the winter 2062 thread.
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He shouldn't be, honestly. A few weeks ago, he was quite bearish. Then he turned bullish with everyone else. Now he's back to somewhat bearish again. One thing I have noticed over the last decade in particular, is that the art of forecasting is not advancing very rapidly. Model accuracy is advancing (allegedly), access to data is advancing, sharing and spreading of information is advancing, but forecasting really isn't so much.Huffman not quite as bullish on January cold. Warning shots. Or shall we call them warming shots?
Let’s fire up the February thread.
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The science and understanding of meteorology is a dying thing. Modelology however is a live and well. Old school meteorologists know how to use models as just 1 part of their forecast making. Knowing models bias and flaws and knowing where they typically are accurate is a part. Just because a model isn't showing a solution doesn't mean that the ingredients aren't there and that a bias could be holding it back from accurately painting the correct picture. Pro Mets are good as they are because they take a lot of other factors into account when trying to forecast 5, 10, 30, 90 days down the road.He shouldn't be, honestly. A few weeks ago, he was quite bearish. Then he turned bullish with everyone else. Now he's back to somewhat bearish again. One thing I have noticed over the last decade in particular, is that the art of forecasting is not advancing very rapidly. Model accuracy is advancing (allegedly), access to data is advancing, sharing and spreading of information is advancing, but forecasting really isn't so much.
Everyone looks at the same data, and 98% of the general forecasting community gets to pretty much the same idea, which is based on the same model output that everyone sees. So you get these bullish/bearish/bullish/bearish oscillations within, for example, a period where the pattern is not very good for the entire period. Why? Because the model data shifts. You get a few good runs in a row followed by a few bad runs in a row. We rely too much on this, IMO.
Understanding model biases, background conditions, pattern persistence, pattern recognition, etc. would help cut down on the bullish/bearish/bullish/bearish oscillations. But long range forecasting is hard. It's not as easy as understanding or even successfully predicting the evolution of one index. Models help, but the ubiquitous access to 24/7 data hasn't really helped improve the actual art of forecasting. This goes for both long range and short range.