OVERVIEW: An arbitrary city (where the weather might be interesting) will be picked on a Saturday. The contest will run Monday through Friday. On Sunday a 5 day forecast for the period will be issued along with a day 1 forecast. Each day a forecast will be issued for the next day. The parameters for the 5 day are just high and low. The 1 day foecasts will be high low and total precip by type. The 5 day forecast will be locked so you will be riding on it all week. We will use data from the cf6 at that location for scoring.
SCORING: we will use a 100 point system each degree, .01 of rain and .1 of snow will be -1 point.
SPECIAL EVENTS: If a large event pops up during the forecasting week a special daily event will run for the event. If it's a hurricane it might be max wind gust and precip total, severe weather closest storm report to a city picked, snow max snow total, heat wave highest temp, cold wave coldest temp.
DUE TIME: Entries will be due by 0z.
Most of all I just want us to have fun with this. If you guys can think up anything to add let me know. Also on that note if you think this is too much or too time consuming let me know. I want to get as much participation as possible without causing too much headache. I'd like to do a trial run this week at Norfolk, Nebraska. Who's in?
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SCORING: we will use a 100 point system each degree, .01 of rain and .1 of snow will be -1 point.
SPECIAL EVENTS: If a large event pops up during the forecasting week a special daily event will run for the event. If it's a hurricane it might be max wind gust and precip total, severe weather closest storm report to a city picked, snow max snow total, heat wave highest temp, cold wave coldest temp.
DUE TIME: Entries will be due by 0z.
Most of all I just want us to have fun with this. If you guys can think up anything to add let me know. Also on that note if you think this is too much or too time consuming let me know. I want to get as much participation as possible without causing too much headache. I'd like to do a trial run this week at Norfolk, Nebraska. Who's in?
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