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I live in an area which regularly has a climate differently then forecasted: often less rain and more sunny. Would be great if I can connect my local weather st
by Gys 3y ago
I live in an area which regularly has a climate differently then forecasted: often less rain and more sunny. Would be great if I can connect my local weather station (and/or its history) to some model and have more accurate forecasts.
- speps 3y agoBecause weather data is interpolated between multiple stations, you wouldn't even need the local station position, your own position would be more accurate as it'd take a lot more parameters into account.
- tash9 3y agoOne piece of context to note here is that models like ECMWF are used by forecasters as a tool to make predictions - they aren't taken as gospel, just another input. The global models tend to consistently miss in places that have local weather "quirks" - which is why local forecasters tend to do better than, say, accuweather, where it just posts what the models say. Local forecasters might have learned over time that, in early Autumn, the models tend to overpredict rain, and so when they give their forecasts, they'll tweak the predictions based on the model tendencies.
- dist-epoch 3y agoThere are models which take as input both global forecasts and local ones, and which then can transpose a global forecast into a local one. National weather institutions sometimes do this, since they don't have the resources to run a massive supercomputer model.
- Gys 3y agoInteresting. So what I am looking for is probably an even more scaled down version? Or something that runs in the cloud with an api to upload my local measurements.
- supdudesupdude 3y agoHate to break it but one weather station wont improve a forecast? What are they supposed to do? Ignore the output of our state of the art forecast models and add an if statement for your specific weather station??