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Just as an extra datapoint, when it comes to ocean racing, one of the biggest complaints about mesoscale weather data is that it does not have a confidence scor
by hadlock 8y ago
Just as an extra datapoint, when it comes to ocean racing, one of the biggest complaints about mesoscale weather data is that it does not have a confidence score. The weather forecast says that the north pacific high is going to shift 200 miles west, which changes your fastest course from San Diego to Hawaii from a west then southerly route, to a south then westerly route (the high pressure system sits directly in between)... if the confidence on this forecast is 95% then you know to commit to the southerly route, but if it is only 51% confidence and typically the high is 500 miles more east than this then you might make a different decision and monitor the situation as it develops.
Anyways, if anyone at the NWS is reading this, we do actually pay close attention to this stuff and a confidence score of some sort would make boat weather routing software a whole heck of a lot more accurate.