Sentences with phrase «of weather forecasters»

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.
That is the job of the weather forecaster.

Not exact matches

Writing in the wake of his own initial failure as a forecaster in 1922, Richardson imagined a time in which all weather might be calculable before it takes place.
In Canada, meanwhile, Prime Minister Harper is using his to muzzle weather forecasters at the Meteorological Service of Canada -LSB-...]
The Hurricane Hunters fly into the eye of Hurricane Irma to continue to provide valuable data about the storm for weather forecasters.
Considering that the media plays up the worst possible scenarios in everything — you would think that a winter snowstorm was an assault on the existance of all humanity in its path the way some weather forecasters talk about it — the constant inflation of the danger posed by ordinary events, it is no wonder that people are fearful.
Take the case of a weather - forecaster: he might predict that it will rain tomorrow, and he might be correct.
@VP: No I don't believe Obama or weather forecasters are idiots for predicting what they did: but, if they predicted the end of the world and claimed they discovered this with 100 % certainty from a 2000 year old book written by people that thought the earth was flat, Yes I would call them idiots.
When Phyllis shows him the signs of spring, he realizes he is wrong — about the weather, and about girls doing a good job as weather forecasters.
There are a lot of requirements, as potential weather - forecasters find out, and some pretty big furry shoes to fill.
«I made the mistake after Storm Irene of criticizing the weather forecaster.
Forecasters are warning residents to prepare for even worse weather this weekend, with a month's worth of rain fall in just 48 hours.
For the Rockland County area, weather forecasters are calling for three to five inches of snow beginning Saturday morning and lasting through Saturday evening or night.
A southerly flow of air will push temperatures to late spring like temperatures today in what weather service forecasters are projecting will be «stupendous conditions.»
«With this simulator, we can explain in great detail to the operational weather community [weather forecasters] the tornadic echo from polarimetric radar,» says Robert Palmer, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and co-author of the paper.
«If you use the older normals that have a lot of cold weather, it forces your sales impacts to be higher,» said Linda Clark, a gas sales forecaster for Consumers Energy.
For the most part, forecasts of its impacts on weather patterns were borne out, but forecasters fared relatively poorly in California, which relies on El Niños to deliver rains to parched areas.
«For the first time, space weather forecasters now have models and tools for predicting how a CME is released from the sun, accelerated out into the solar wind, and ultimately ends up colliding with Earth's magnetosphere creating the geomagnetic storms that impact so many technologies and systems,» says Rodney Viereck of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Environment Center.
Knowing where water vapor is in the atmosphere is one of many factors forecasters use to identify weather features.
NOAA's GOES - East (or GOES - 13) and GOES - West (or GOES - 15) sit 60 degrees apart in a fixed orbit over Earth and provide forecasters with a look at the movement of weather systems in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Because the sudden increase in lightning strikes is either concurrent with — or within minutes of — a supercell forming, UAH researchers are developing algorithms that might be used by forecasters to issue timely severe weather warnings.
This makes it very difficult to accurately predict weather changes more than a few days in advance, though weather forecasters are continually working to extend this limit through the scientific study of weather, meteorology.
«These results are important for operational weather forecasters and emergency managers,» says Nick Anderson, program director in the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funded the research.
«If you think being a weather forecaster on Earth is difficult, it can be even more challenging at Titan,» said Scott Edgington, Cassini's deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know there are weather processes similar to Earth's at work on this strange world, but differences arise due to the presence of unfamiliar liquids like methane.
While weather forecasters still can't peer much more than a week into the future, climate forecasters are now claiming they can predict the speed of the North Atlantic's great climate - changing current as much as 4 years ahead.
Forecasters quickly lose track of coming weather in the atmosphere's maddeningly chaotic churnings.
Forecasters of space weather can use the STEREO spacecraft to preview the solar activity that our planet will face in the coming days.
But forecasters say it could nudge weather patterns in other areas of the globe, especially if it persists or intensifies, and could boost global temperatures — following a 2014 that was already the hottest year on record.
The success of Climate Matters led to a partnership with Weather Company subsidiary WSI, which distributes our analyses to the majority of the nation's TV weather forecasters.
Forecasters stress that while El Niño is the 500 - pound gorilla affecting this winter's weather, other factors can periodically come into play in the complex and chaotic interplay of the atmosphere.
For instance, when weather forecasters predicted several feet of snow in late January, my daughter Laura worried.
Rainfall in August was just 4 percent of the average, according to the local weather forecasters.
According to NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, Kansas will be 4 degrees warmer in winter without Arctic ice, which regularly generates cold air masses that flow southward into the U.S. (You've probably heard weather forecasters say the following hundreds of times: People in the middle part of the country had better button up.
The weather forecasters barely mentioned the snow ahead of time (which usually means we're in for it) until about 2 days before.
weather section, and a great point of difference to most major NZ web sites - who often use the same single forecaster.
Interestingly, all the weather forecasters on BBC channels are completely audible — perhaps they could share their training system with the rest of the media?
Using fascinating truths and eyewitness accounts, «Good Morning America» weather forecaster Spencer Christian, along with children's author Antonia Felix, expertly guides readers through the formidable forces of nature, from untwisting the myths of tornadoes to shaking out the facts about plate tectonics, in the first two books of the series, Can It Really Rain Frogs?
However, there are a number of other groundhog «weather forecasters» in both the United States and Canada.
If that wasn't the case, economists wouldn't be doing such a good job of making weather forecasters look good!
The weather forecasters say the snow fell to a high of 35 inches with Philadelphia getting 35 feet.
The Dean of Caribbean weather forecasters, once you've seen him, you won't forget him... After all, his sidekick, Bob the parrot, is always at his side.
They have an experienced team of surf forecasters and using their knowledge and experience of New Zealand weather systems and wave locations can ensure you have the best experience possible during your stay.
The Hurricane Hunters fly into the eye of Hurricane Irma to continue to provide valuable data about the storm for weather forecasters.
In Liquidity inc., Steyerl makes one of her characteristic intellectual leaps and connects extreme financial events to extreme climate events: the jet stream of money changes direction when the Dow Jones collapses, then suddenly a gonzo weather forecaster, masked in black, is gesturing across the most political of politically geographical maps you ever saw — noting failed states and off - shore tax havens, isobars indicating flows of capital rather than weather fronts.
Yet, when it comes to climate science, you apparently feel comfortable seeking the opinions of folks like Anthony Watts, a TV weather forecaster with NO SCIENTIFIC TRAINING, etc..
In 2007, Mr. Watts, a former TV weather forecaster, began recruiting legions of volunteers across the United States to inspect the thousands of weather stations — some in people's back yards or in parking lots — that have for generations produced the raw data feeding into federal and independent efforts to track climate trends.
Subject: Re: FW: retraction request Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:21:57 -0400 Cc: Wei - Chyung Wang Thanks Phil, We R now responding to a former TV weather forecaster who has got press, He has a Web site of 40 of the USHCN stations showing less than ideal exposure.
Meanwhile, what's sad is that weather forecasters are not mentioning how weird this is in the context of climate change.
In making its seasonal prediction, forecasters cautioned that there are large portions of the country for which there are no clear indications whether it will be a warmer, colder, wetter, or drier than average winter, largely due to a fickle El Niño event that may have petered out too early to have much of an impact on North American winter weather.
Many environmental fields have similar social networks — composed of bird watchers, hunters and fishermen, farmers, weather forecasters, students and teachers — who can help convey and clarify information.
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