Do Mountains Make Their Own Weather Systems ? We Live Seven Miles From A Town And Our Forcast Is Never Correct
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Cool - you seem to have really interesting weather.\n\nYes, if there is a 1000 foot difference between you & the town 7 miles away you will certainly experience different weather in some situations - and typing in your zip code for an online forecast generally will not help - to my knowledge the type of meso and micro scale effects you mention are not included in any of them. You really have to learn how your local weather differs from that at surrounding areas (which are forecast for) for specific situations.\n\nFor example, when the temperature is near the dewpoint with storm systems affecting your region, the cloud base in town can be below 1000 feet and below you. There are many orographic effects on the microscale - mountain-valley breezes, and the extra elevation can in certain situations cause showers to occur over you but not them. After a cool & clear night, you may become warm quicker than the town does - cool air persisting in the valleys longer after sunrise - then they'll become quite a bit warmer than you during afternoon.\n\nThough the NWS attempted to place the doppler radars at locations for the best overall coverage, some mountain locations still cause problems. The base reflectivity images you typically see when you look at a "radar map" are obtained using a beam tilted .5° above horizontal. If the precipitation is occurring primarily below that or there is an intervening mountain, you may get a small or no signal. That is much more common with snow rather than rain showers because low & rather thin clouds can sometimes produce them. Raindrops generally need a much greater vertical distance for the water droplets to combine and become large enough to fall out of the cloud. Ice crystals can float around horizontally much more and do that.\n\nSo there are many possibilities, but I would have to know exactly where you are to say anything specific.\n\nI saw something cool visiting Clingman's Dome in Tennessee one September. It was a sunny day, but on the road to the summit there was a large low area in amongst the mountains over which a cumulus cloud had formed. Became cloudy for a few minutes as we passed by then was sunny again. On the way back down a few hours later, the cloud was still there. There were a few small cumulus clouds here & threre occasionally, but some orographic circulation evidently caused that cloud to form & persist much of the day. Was a warm day - I am guessing a little over 80° even at the summit.
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Maybe the ground temperature is hotter. Its temperature doesn't count on outside factor. The sun is just 1 factor.
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A huge factor in snowmaking is not only temperature but humidity. I believe some of the more advanced snowmaking systems can get around this but at my resort I know that freezing temperatures alone are not enough to make snow. Our systems requires that the humidity to be very low or we can't get the water to freeze.
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BECAUSE THOSE AREAS MIGHT HAVE HIGH HILLS WHERE THE CLOUDS HIT HARD AND RAIN .MIGHT BE THE LOW AREAS AND FINALLY DUE TO CLOSE TO SEAS
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Meteorology is a fairly new science. The first artificial satellite dedicated to weather was launched in 1960. Our satellites and weather equipment and mapping are getting better with each year and with each satellite launched. In other words, give it time, we are still learning lots about the extremely dynamic weather! \n:-D\n\nCurrently, meteorologists are wrong on their LONG-TERM forcasts about 15% of the time.
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The first thing to come to my mind is if you're talking about convective rainfall, which requires the ground to heat up.  If you have a layer of say altostratus clouds (with no precip) move over an area, the solar heating will decrease and this could halt any convective clouds that may have been forming, and which may have produced rain if the heating had continued.  But this is just off the top of my head.
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Mountains can affect the weather and climate of an area.  The mountians create updrafts, rainshadows, and other phenomena.\nMountains also affect the flow of people, ideas, and things impacting travel and transportation
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it does not predict the weather....but if you have a storm moving in...the direction the storm is moving makes a difference
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Weather forecasting is not an exact science. There are numerous factors that effect the actual temperature. If it gives a temperature range that is generally for a 24 hour time period. If the current temperature falls outside the range then it might say "37 degrees, range 40-51" they just didn't predict accurately.\n\nNothing against the weather forecasters, that is a tough job. People who get bent out of shape over the forecast being off by 3 degrees need to find a new hobby.
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It isn't easily automated. I mean you can't have a remote automated weather station that reports the humidity with a sling psychrometer, it requires manual operation.
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i remember a couple years ago we had a hot spell.  we actually keep track of the hotest and coldest of every day of the year. so it will be like, hey did you hear?  no what?  yesterday was the hotest april 19th since 1932!  yea?! awesome.  \nok. so its kinda cheesey...back to the question, somewhere around 105-110f and as low as mebe 20f.  not  quite exactly sure
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Probably just the weather changing quickly ? We had a thunderstorm a few weeks ago, except it was snowing with it. Really warm before it and really cold afterwards... I'm sure it's nothing to alarm yourself over.
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Try the weather channel website.. maybe they have one there. You are from Peebles? Wow! I got folks there! :0)
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I don't know that there is an accurate answer to that question as there are not weather stations on all parts of the globe. Pacific Ocean, Antarctica, Himalyas etc
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Weather forecasters predict weather up to 10 days in advance. Their accuracy drops drastically after 2-3 days. Most weathermen predict weather by themselves for the next 24 hours. After that, they rely on computer models. So when a weatherman says it will be sunny and 90 degrees in three days, he is relying almost completely on his computer models. The fact is, computer models change constantly because the weather changes constantly. For example, cold fronts speed up, slow down, and stall. A weatherman could know how cold it'll get after the cold front, but he won't know exactly when. The only really reliable forecast is the 2-3 day forecast. The type of weather will almost always be right (sunny, partly cloudy, rainy) and the tempature will be within a couple degrees. 7 day forecasts are not really reliable, but they do give you a picture. \nOverall, weather forecasts are unreliable because the causes of weather (air pressure, jet stream, moisture) are unreliable. Weather is one of the things that make man look small and weak.
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No, mother nature is mother nature. Storms have always been a part of the climate. Earthquakes because the Teutonic plates shift. Tornado's by severe storms. Why would you assume that God would be out to get us? He created everything( if that is your belief) so it follows that He created the weather too.
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It's true that there isn't much air up high to hold heat and pass it on to you. But you'd be surprised at how short a distance you have to go to feel a big difference in temperature. Mountains that are only several thousand feet tall have permanent ice caps. The heat from the sun goes straight through the atmosphere. Much of the UV and other radiations are filtered but the longer waves go straight through until they get stopped and absorbed by the ground. The majority of the heat is then reflected back up from the ground to fill a very small layer. Try going to the top of a very tall building on a hot day, the temperature change should be noticeable there too.