Friday, November 12, 2010

Pull Out the Red Pens ... It's Time to Grade Minneapolis Weathercasters

I've always been intrigued by the different snow forecasts that can be produced by different people with access to the same information. This blog will be dedicated to summarizing the forecasts of local Minneapolis weather forecasters in the days preceding a forecast of snow.
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9 comments:

  1. tom mooreDecember 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM

    nice idea for a site. i'd even go back another day or two - if you're able to do so - and see what they were calling five days out. i find that forecasts are pretty unreliable until about two days to go, at best - and that t.v weatherpersons like to play up best-possible-scenarios for five days from now so they can say "but things are looking up early to mid next week" if the current, short-term forecast isn't ideal.

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  2. steinreportDecember 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM

    Thank you. I do intend to look at forecasts from five days out as I get rolling at this.

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  3. Grace GumlockDecember 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM

    Sometimes the degree to which TV forecasters hype a storm has more to do with whether they're in a ratings sweep week.

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  4. steinreportDecember 10, 2010 at 1:47 PM

    I tend to agree, Grace. But hopefully this site will help sort the truth-seekers from the sweeps-seekers.

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  5. KMEDecember 10, 2010 at 2:07 PM

    So are we going to see who was right and who was wrong the most??

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  6. steinreportDecember 10, 2010 at 2:32 PM

    Absolutely! That's the mission of this site.

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  7. Lisa from MplsDecember 10, 2010 at 3:54 PM

    I love the idea of this site! I wish you had a facebook button so I could link it up to my page. I'm more excited about the results of this "weather-prediction-face-off" than I am about the end result of the storm!

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  8. mnweatherguyDecember 10, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    I'm working on it. :-)

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