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Anything over 24 hours is pretty much always very wrong in the mid Atlantic region.

capableweb 3y ago
How 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 ago
  Mid Atlantic = south of New England north of Virginia (more or less), not middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
  - hgomersall 3y ago
    Not 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 ago
  The 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 ago
As 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 ago
  Reading 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 ago
    You 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.

How 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 ago
Mid Atlantic = south of New England north of Virginia (more or less), not middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
- hgomersall 3y ago
  Not 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 ago
The 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 ago

As 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 ago
Reading 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 ago
  You 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.