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I used Wunderground for years, but in the past few months, their local data went crazy. They were emitting ridiculous data like eight degrees hotter than any o
by lesterbuck 14y ago
I used Wunderground for years, but in the past few months, their local data went crazy. They were emitting ridiculous data like eight degrees hotter than any other station. I reported the bad data, and I got back a form email about how great their "new" algorithms were. They definitely need some outlier filters to kill off idiots putting their thermometers in the sun over asphalt, or whatever was the problem. I looked around and, oddly enough, ended up using weather.com. I now have a morbid fascination with their record of the high for the day at some exact time...
The real skill in weather seems to be from WeatherBill, now The Climate Corporation:
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/author/david_friedberg http://ecorner.stanford.edu/author/david_friedberg
When there is big money on the accuracy of the weather prediction and measurement, they tend to get it right.
- karlshea 14y agoI haven't seen that around me. My only issue is that a PWS that was near my house went offline, so the "nearest" to me is a buoy in Lake Michigan which in the evening is about 10-15 degrees cooler than everywhere else.