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What's the point of a three day weather forecast?
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:21 pm
When it says the same thing as the first three days of a 10 day forecast. Couldn't you just have a 10 day forecast and leave it at that with knowledge that the closer it is the more accurate it is?
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Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:23 pm to NATidefan
Usually when you look at a 3 day forecast it displays more detailed information than a 10-day forecast. Like what it will be like in the morning vs the afternoon.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:24 pm to NATidefan
Just in case you only have the room to absorb only 3 days of knowledge.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:25 pm to NATidefan
I believe the point is to predict the weather for three days
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:26 pm to NATidefan
It’s an homage to the past. In the old days they only had the 3. The weather guys had to go into smoke filled back rooms and bang out a 3 day, sometimes working through the night. Everything was riding on that forecast and if they got it wrong it had actual consequences. It wasn’t unheard of for a weatherman to be beaten in the parking lot of the news channel for a bad miss. Nowadays they just type a few things into the computer and it spits out up to 25 days. There’s no romance in it anymore. The local guys like to keep the 3 day up there as a reminder of when their jobs actually mattered.
This post was edited on 2/29/24 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:27 pm to Undertow
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Usually when you look at a 3 day forecast
Well mine doesn't. It has a hourly forecast that does that 2 days out.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:28 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Nowadays they just type a few things into the computer and it spits out up to 25 days.
Unless you're Accuweather, then you put out a 60 or 90 day forecast.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:31 pm to OysterPoBoy
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It’s an homage to the past. In the old days they only had the 3. The weather guys had to go into smoke filled back rooms and bang out a 3 day, sometimes working through the night. Everything was riding on that forecast and if they got it wrong it had actual consequences. It wasn’t unheard of for a weatherman to be beaten in the parking lot of the news channel for a bad miss. Nowadays they just type a few things into the computer and it spits out up to 25 days. There’s no romance in it anymore. The local guys like to keep the 3 day up there as a reminder of when their jobs actually mattered.
That's sounds right
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:36 pm to NATidefan
I'm more concerned about why the low shown for today doesn't actually occur until tomorrow morning.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 3:36 pm to OysterPoBoy
Doublepost
This post was edited on 2/29/24 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 2/29/24 at 4:48 pm to OysterPoBoy
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if they got it wrong it had actual consequences.
Rob Perillo here in Lafayette is wrong at least 50% of the time. Despite that, he could probably run for mayor-president and win in a landslide.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 4:51 pm to NATidefan
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three day weather forecast
That is so that the weatherman talks for few more minutes so that sports gets short changed.
I can remember a time when sports came before weather.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 5:28 pm to Tarps99
All weather forecasts are just a GUESS!
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