Saturday 10 February 2007

Internet Weather Forecast Accuracy

Forecastinging the weather is a major scientific challenge embracing physics, chemistry and mathematics.

The problem that faces meteorology is how to forecast the weather systems and the weather that they bring. This is always a great deal more difficult than most people would expect. There are different methods of forecasting: Persistence, Trends, Analog, Climatology and Numerical Weather Prediction.

But how accurate is this information? How much can we trust it? OmniNerd did some research to test the accuracy of online weather forecasts.

2 comment(s):

Eric Floehr said...

If you were interested in that study, you may also be interested in ForecastAdvisor.com. The site calculates ongoing weather forecast accuracy statistics for over 800 locations in the United States from Accuweather, MyForecast.com, The Weather Channel, Intellicast, and The National Weather Service.

In addition to high temperature, low temperature, and precipitation accuracy measurements, there is a blog with more statistics and information.

Enjoy!
Ace

eedetik said...

Masalah yang dihadapi meteorologi adalah bagaimana memperkirakan sistem cuaca dan cuaca yang mereka bawa. Ini selalu jauh lebih sulit daripada yang diperkirakan kebanyakan orang. Ada berbagai metode ramalan: Kegigihan, Kecenderungan, Analog, Klimatologi, situs prediksi bola dan Prediksi Cuaca Numerik.