what is the difference between short-term weather forecasts and  long-term?
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Similarities: Both are usually wrong ;-) Just kidding.\n\nA short term weather forcast is going to give you the weather for a shorter period of time than a long-term weather report is. Also, the short term is likely to stay the same, or closest to what was reported because of how near it is. Long term on the other hand will likely change between the time it is firt forcast and the time the weather actually arrives.
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Hurricanes, because they have the vast supply of warm, moist air at their disposal, whereas the other two, their conditions are only prime for a few hours, or in a tornado's case, minutes, where a hurricane can last for a few weeks, if you count the pre- and post hurricane status.
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Depends on where you live.\n\nWhen I lived in Florida, forecasts were accurate 90% of the time(exception: hurricanes). They can usually predict an average FL forecast 5 days in advance.\n\nHere in Denver, it is hard to predict what a front will do when the mountains to the west make it hard to predict- a good forecast is accurate for a day or 2 at best.
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organizational charts. though i didnt understand ur question i  think u were asking weather graphs are better or organizational charts.
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Generally, a watch means that conditions are right for a storm to occur, but the storm isn't actually occurring. A warning means that a storm is occurring or is imminent, as observed by storm spotters or Doppler radar. Watches typically cover a wide area, while warnings are usually confined to a single county or parish.
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My Mother-in-Law is convinced that the phases of the moon and changes in the wind predict the weather pattern until the moon starts to next wax/wane.\n\nAs a scientist I know that this is twaddle.\n\nThe trouble is, she has an uncanny knack of being right.
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At least, www.weather.com has the information for your city, for example:\n\nhttp://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/EGXX0008?x=13&lswe=Hurghada&lswa=WeatherLocalUndeclared&y=11\n\nor try the international search from:\n\nhttp://www.weather.com/common/welcomepage/world.html?from=globalnav&ref=/\n\nThen, there is a service for your website at:\n\nhttp://www.weather.com/services/oap.html?from=homewxanywhere\n\nbut I don't sure if it offers the same locations of the web world search.\n\nYou can visit too:\n\nhttp://www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/hw3/hw3.cgi?config=&forecast=pass&pass=tafINT
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You could try looking it up on google, or you could try asking other people that have been to the place you are trying to visit during that time what the weather was like.  You could also look it up in a book, books these days are very resourceful. ( not trying to be sarcastic )  I know for a fact that there are sites on the web that predict what the weather will be like in the future for you.  I am not sure what their links are, but I know their out in the web world somewhere.  I hope this was a help.
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Climate is more of a long-term, permanent state. For example, a rain forest climate would be wet and warm year-round. Weather is constantly changing; weather includes temporary states like rain or cloudiness. Weather is affected by winds, temperature and humidity.
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just to add a bit of information forecast is pronóstico and also prognosis and to foresee though in English they are used in different contexts in Mexico it is always used the word pronóstico unless using the word anticipar which means to anticipate in English
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Hi there-\n\nAccording to the National Weather Service, there is actually no difference between the two designations.\n\nPartly Cloudy and Partly Sunny are both used when anywhere between 3/8 and 4/8 of the sky is obscured by sky. The ranks are:\n\nClear or Sunny  0/8\n\nMostly Clear, or Mostly Sunny 1/8 to 2/8\n\nPartly Cloudy, or Partly Sunny  3/8 to 4/8\n\nMostly Cloudy, or Considerable Cloudiness  5/8 to 7/8\n\nCloudy 8/8\n\nFair (used mostly for nighttime periods)  \nLess than 4/10 opaque clouds, no precipitation, no extremes of visibility, temperature or winds.  Describes generally pleasant weather conditions.
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A detailed forecast for that far ahead is not likely to be particularly accurate.  Mathematical predictions suffer from compounding of small errors which build up over a period of time so that a forecast which may be pretty accurate for 3 days time becomes less so for 5 days and might be rather vague for 10 days ahead.  The movements of air in the atmosphere is quite chaotic and difficult to predict in any case.\n\nIt also depends on the sort of weather - rapidly changing conditions are more difficult to predict.  Here in the UK it is notoriously difficult to predict snowfall with any accuracy as a small difference in temperature can mean the difference between a rainstorm and a blizzard.
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People think meteorologist just guess the weather, but they actually go thru one of the hardest classes in college.  Just let the public know.  I think that they do really good to predict the weather for a week to even month span, it justs makes me curious about how good or bad of a month its going to be.  Me my self is majoring on Meteorology and i kno predicting a week, month or even sometimes the year ina whole is really difficult.
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Lots of professions! I visited a National Weather Service office this past summer and learned a lot.\n\nEveryday the NWS forecasters write forecasts specifically for the airports in their region. When preparing an airplane for a commercial flight, it is best to give it just enough fuel for it to get to its destination because the less fuel the plane is carrying, the lighter and more efficient it flies, but if rain is forecast for its destination, the plane has to have enough fuel to fly to an alternate airport where good weather is forecast. Weather can literally cost airlines thousands.\n\nFarmers and ranchers also rely on weather forecasts. While I was at the NWS station, a rancher called up asking what the chance of rain was because he wanted to harvest his hay, but if it was going to rain, all that hay would be ruined in the harvest and it would be better to just leave it in the ground.\n\nFishermen rely on tidal forecasts so they know when it is safest to leave port and what time they need to get back into harbor. If they try to get back during low tide, they may very well not be able to.
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Well some obvious differences are:\n\nTornadoes form over land. Hurricanes form over water.\n\nHurricanes are huge, tens to hundreds of miles across.\nTornadoes are rarely more than a hundred yards in diameter.\n\nHurricanes linger in the ocean for days or even weeks.\nTornadoes are usually gone in under an hour.\n\nHurricanes are rated by their wind speed: Category 1 70 mph winds to category 5 180 mph winds.\n\nTornadoes are rated by size (I think), F1 through F5.\n\nTry any web site having to do with weather or meteorology for lots more info.\n\nThe National Weather Service, The Weather Channel, etc.
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Weather.com is a really good site(I use it too)\n\nWeather is an all-encompassing term used to describe all of the many and varied phenomena that can occur in the atmosphere of a planet. The term is normally taken to mean the activity of these phenomena over short periods of time, usually no more than a few days in length. Average atmospheric conditions over significantly longer periods are known as climate. Usage of the two terms often overlaps and the concepts are obviously very closely related.\n\nWeather is driven by the different amounts of energy received from the Sun on different parts of the planet. Because of a planet's curvature, sunlight is incident at different angles at different latitudes (higher latitude -> lower angle of incidence -> less heating). Different types of surface (e.g. ocean, forest, ice) have different properties of reflectivity (albedo) and absorb differing amounts of energy. It is mainly due to these two factors that the surface is heated to different extents.\n\nThese surface temperature differences cause vertical wind currents as the hot surface heats the air directly above it. This hot air expands and rises lowering the air pressure and drawing colder air into its place, which is in turn heated and rises and so on. When the hot air later cools it shrinks and sinks lower, increasing air pressure and displacing the air already below it. Horizontal wind currents are formed at the boundaries between differentially heated areas and can be exacerbated by the presence of sloped surfaces. The simple systems thus formed can then display emergent behaviour to produce more complex systems and thus all other weather phenomena. A large scale example of this process can be seen in the Hadley cell and other forms of atmospheric circulation, a smaller scale example would be coastal breezes.\n\nThe only two fundamental causes of weather are thus surface temperature, and to a lesser extent, elevation.\n\nAny precession in a planet's orbit will affect the amount of energy received at a particular spot throughout the year. This effect causes seasons and may influence long term weather patterns.
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It is impossible to forecast weather any specific area will be hit "as hard as......"\nor "worst than......"\n\nWe cant do it.  We have medium, and long range forecast models that can give us a "2 weeks notice" of possible severe weather in a REGION (be it a very large region).\n\nThe only other thing we have to go by is large-scale--global--patters, such as ElNino, or LaNina.\n\n*** Bottom Line ***\n\nGET PREPARED, and STAY PREPARED!  Weather you live on the east coast of the US, smack in the middle of Tornado Alley, or anywhere in between....... do it!\n\n\n\nTake care...\nWeather_Wise911