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Are you stating this because you are a weather researcher or because you think that? Because we do have weather balloons and weather satellites and weather sta
by Semionilo 3y ago
Are you stating this because you are a weather researcher or because you think that?
Because we do have weather balloons and weather satellites and weather stations in variant heights and situations.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoBut at a ridiculously sparse density. At anything above 10km, it’s not even 1 data source per hundred thousand square km of area at any given time. Countries the size of Poland go without for at least a decent chunk of the 8760 hours in a year.
- bufferoverflow 3y agoSatellites only look at the surface (and maybe clouds). Weather balloons are extremely sparce.
- blovescoffee 3y agoI see this pretty often here unfortunately. Very confidently wrong statements from people who aren’t actual experts. For historical reasons there’s a sort of guise of expert on HN that can be abused.
- sharts 3y agoThis is how the tech nerds operate. Read a wikipedia paragraph, and become expert.