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Does anyone's 5 day forecast look good?
by vore 3y ago
Does anyone's 5 day forecast look good?
- codeslave13 3y ago5 day is closed to wild ass guess in my area. Mountains complicate everything
- orangepurple 3y agoAnything over 24 hours is pretty much always very wrong in the mid Atlantic region.
- capableweb 3y agoHow often do you need weather services in the middle of the Atlantic though? Seems like a pretty niche use case, except for the various islands there. Edit: I thought something was sketchy and rightly so, after searching for "Mid Atlantic Region" I learned that it's actually a region in the north-east US, not "the middle of the Atlantic". Well, learned something new today :)
- vore 3y agoMid Atlantic = south of New England north of Virginia (more or less), not middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
- hgomersall 3y agoNot to be confused with a mid-Atlantic accent, which is possibly what you might get around the middle of the Atlantic if your interpolated a couple of specific local accents between the UK and the US
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThe Mid-Atlantic [coast] is part of the US east coast around NY, NJ, Pennsylvania, etc rather than literally the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It's a fairly important region considering how much of the US and global economy reside there.
- Workaccount2 3y agoAs someone who both lives in the mid-atlantic and regularly has to plan around the weather, I can assure you that you simply have a confirmation bias. Our forecasts are actually pretty good, even for ones 7 days out. Where people tend to get thrown is micro-storms during the summer months. They are basically impossible to predict accurately, at best it's just known that a random assortment of towns in a given area will received heavy rain for a short time. Being able to read radar is the best way to deal with this, but it's very short term only (15min to 1 hr).
- orangepurple 3y agoReading radar is even harder because you need a 3D view of the atmosphere to understand why storms are coming seemingly out of thin air. This is especially a problem near rivers. We only get a 2D doppler slice.
- Workaccount2 3y agoYou just have to look at the 2D slice and see if a storm pocket is headed your way. That's the best its gonna get for a layman.
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