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From the article: >”These observations are then fed into numerical prediction models to forecast the weather.” In other words, the forecasts come from models,
by bumby 3y ago
From the article:
>”These observations are then fed into numerical prediction models to forecast the weather.”
In other words, the forecasts come from models, not necessarily real-time station readings. Those readings are inputs into the model, and the models may not get updated fast enough to reflect current conditions.
- Fomite 3y agoOr it might be raining at the station the reading is being made at, but not where you are. Living in the west for example, a lot of weather stations are remarkably broad in the area they're expected to represent.
- bumby 3y agoThe point is that the forecasts are often not built from real-time weather station data, but models using various initial conditions.