It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area

Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by spacephysics on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:59PM (#24181246)

I believe I heard on NPR that due to the grounding of many planes from Covid, weather models have less data points for prediction.

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by sliken on Sunday August 16, 2020 @06:22PM (#24181873)

Normal passenger planes provide significant data collection for weather predictions?

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by eXpl0it3r on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:36PM (#24181560)

Yes, a lot of the detailed weather data is actually provided by planes, but with a lot fewer planes flying, they get fewer data points and the models lose accuracy.

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Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area by IAmGraydon on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:55AM (#24197228)

Interesting! Thanks for that.

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