Sunday, February 24, 2008

Hindcasts and ... 9 Day Forecasts ...wot will be next ?

Well those of you whom have been following my snow missives will know that I have been a long time supporter of the fine service provided by the folks at snow-forecast.com. Continually pushing the forecasting envelope so you can figure out the best way to get a proper powder fix .... so you just got to love there latest upgrade ... Hindcasts indeed ... and 9 days in the future ... heck you will even have time to ask the boss for time off rather than just playing hookie


Hindcasts and ... 9 Day Forecasts ...

"Last week we announced our new hindcast service for members and hope you found it as useful as we do for checking what weather has just passed and hence what the conditions are likely to be.

We are pleased to announce that the next major upgrade is just a few days away – 9 day forecasts for subscribers. We have been validating the usefulness of longer range forecasts for six months. Indeed, any longer range predictions in the last 30 weekly editorials have been based on these models. Lately, we have become increasingly confident that improvements to computer models (and computer hardware) means that longer range forecasts will prove generally useful. Just as important, we are now satisfied that we can now reliably support the extra computation required and still deliver timely updates every 6 hours. Of course, 9 day forecasts are much more speculative than 6 day ones. Nonetheless, as long as they are understood to provide just the outline of what to expect, they are much better than nothing. At the same time as we enable the 9 day forecasts for members, we will allow all users, including non-members, to freely access the 6 day forecasts."

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