Feedback from this office indicated that the 2:19 a.m. Suomi NPP SFR image (Figure 2) matched ground - based observations better than the precipitation forecast from the North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM),
a NOAA weather forecast model, within this data - sparse region.
Not exact matches
Shelby signaled potential increased spending for
NOAA's satellite programs used to prepare
weather prediction
models and advance
weather forecasting capabilities.
NOAA was also directed to enter into at least one pilot contract to «assess the potential viability of commercial
weather data in its
weather modeling and
forecasting.»
The military satellites can probably survive well beyond 2012, although they do not provide all the data
NOAA needs for its
weather -
forecasting models.
My local
NOAA weather page, at the moment, reports that because two
models used give rather different longrange results, the
forecast is:
Several days ago, Andy Revkin did a nice post querying a number of
weather forecasters and researchers about the relative merits of the different
forecast models [link], particularly since everyone seemed to be paying attention to the European
model (ECMWF) rather than
NOAA's GFS
model.