What effects the accuracy of a weatherman's forecasts?
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A forecaster uses very complex computer-generated models when forecasting the weather.  These models describe what will happen in the atmosphere (for instance, concerning winds, temperature, and humidity) over the coming hours or days.\n\nThe models are not perfect, partly because the research about the weather is far from finished, and partly because the physics in the atmosphere is so complicated that some approximations have to be made.\n\nBut the biggest problem is the fact that the computer models require observational in-data.  Information from weather satellites, weather radar, soundings, and weather observations are put into the computer models, and then the computer starts "calculating the weather into the future".  But there are not enough weather obserations and weather radars, especially not over the oceans.  If this would change, weather forecasts would improve considerably.
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have you seen the weather forecast ?????\nmake the most of it i say
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They come from the east. Meteorologists refer to the wind by the direction in which the winds are coming.
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Wind speed, weather conditions
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It is unlikely you will find a reliable answer.  The Farmer's Almanac may help because it uses data from  many years to predict typical weather for a period of time.  The relatively new field of Chaotic Math uses a butterfly as its logo, because just the flapping of a butterfly's wings would be enough to upset long-range predictions of weather given initially perfect data.  The effect was discovered when long range weather forcasts were being studied on a super-computer that sometimes trunkated "unnecessary decimal places."  Congratulations and I hope you have great weather.
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on yahoo search.\ntype in weather.\nitll give you a shortcut.\nthen find a place on the website where it tells you to type in your city.\ndo that.\nthen youll get the forecast.
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They measure temperature with a thermometer.\nThey measure wind speed with an anemometer.\nThey measure humidity with a hygrometer.\nThey measure the salinity with a salinometer.\nThey measure the activation with a acuator.\n\nThen they get the weather on a computer from the National Weather Service.
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The most accurate place to get your weather forecast information would be the National Weather Service.\nhttp://nws.noaa.gov/
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Weather satellites are used to collect basic data, such as temperature and moisture levels, which allows experts to predict weather to a reasonable extent. Past attempts to control weather have been largely unsuccessful and have centered mainly in trying to create rain.
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They'll change back and forth, like weather forecasting.
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Anything warmer than the air temperature will be affected\n\nMeaning more heat will be lost from the warm object if there is  wind. The wind moves the lost heat away from the object.
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A lot of Science and Maths goes behind such predictions. Data collected from satellites, weather balloons, planes and land based instruments is analysed for numerical patterns. These patterns are then processed and compared with findings of a particular time span when a certain amount of known rainfall occurred. In the end a forecast is issued.\n\nNowadays, the job is done by Super Computers but there still remains a large room for errors.
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There is a formula; I won't try to reproduce it here, but will instead include a link to the chart (which includes the formula) on the web site for the National Weather Service.  They have a good explanation of how it works.
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Low and high pressure systems and air currents push and pull the CURRENT weather in one place into other places.  \nWhen certain types of weather conditions combine, they produce a third weather condition, such as cold air meeting humid hot air produces thunderstorms. \nWeather reporters observe existing conditions and extend their their motion to see where they will be in the future.\nAlthough it is not the most exciting thing on TV, if you watch the weather report on the news for your area, they will usually provide a 'weather in motion' map and tell WHY they are predicting what they are predicting.
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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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Anytime you ask statistical question such as this, you need data to figure out any kind of estimate.  One of the problems with any type of weather forecasting this far into the future is that there is not enough data to calculate, and hence, predict what will happen on a particular day in a particular area far months into the future.  \n\nAccording to the National Weather Service webpage for your area: "Hurricanes are products of an interaction between both the ocean and the atmosphere.  Fueled by energy from the warm ocean waters, they can be steered by the easterly trade winds, as well as the temperate westerlies.  Some hurricanes, especially strong ones, are even able to alter the environment that steers them.  This is a major reason why it can sometimes be very difficult to predict where a particular hurricane will track."\n\nUnfortunately, you are going to have to wait until Labor Day Weekend, 2006 to get your answer, but you can contact the Tampa Bay Weather Service Office if you would like to talk to a professional.
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I think you would make an excellent weatherman. That information is probably more informative, than anything they make up everyday. At least your information is guaranteed to be correct in one way or another.