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Old 16th December 2008, 04:01 PM
Nigel C Nigel C is offline
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Originally Posted by Russell D View Post
In the last few years I've noticed a distinct trend with weather forecasting. I remember that about 7 or 8 years ago, the weather forecasts used to be fairly accurate. However, in the last few years, there seems to be an increasing trend of incorrect predictions (predicting rain and having complete sunshine with barely any cloud cover instead or vice versa). Climate change?
More likely the computer models just aren't hitting the mark and the forecasters can only publish their predictions using the strongest models.
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