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Re:NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model by exhilaration on Friday June 14, 2019 @12:49AM (#20180664)
The Europeans are putting big money into weather forecasting, "The goal is to be able to provide, by 2025, reliable forecasts up to two weeks in advance."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-big-weather-supercompu...

As far as I know other than this model upgrade, there are no major investment being made in American weather forecasting.

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Re:NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model by ekianjo on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:27AM (#20181580)
How far from that goal are they at the moment?
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Re:NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model by foepys on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:48AM (#20182182)
Judging by last week's forecasts for my region: pretty far off. Sudden rain in the regions of 10mm/m² and a lot of clouds when sunny weather was predicted. The exact opposite happened as well. Temperatures were off by 5-8°C, too.

All of this for same day forecasts, not even 2 days in advance.

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Re:NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model by ekianjo on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:15AM (#20182673)
rain is pretty hard to predict though. I guess what matters the most is if you can reliably predict major events like heavy storms rather than if you will get a bit wet later today.
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