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Despite the supercomputing power, weather models can still get it wrong - even at short range

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
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A look at how the weather models and the trillions of calculations they make a second from weather obs - they can still get the forecast wrong less than 12 hours ahead. A good example was today with heavy rain across southern England - which was poorly modelled.
Despite the supercomputing power, weather models can still get it wrong - even at short range

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  • Location: Arnside ,where people go to die 9000m Asl
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  • Location: Arnside ,where people go to die 9000m Asl
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Remember reading something about atmospheric fluid dynamics that required modelling  of every square metre of the atmosphere to be  totally accurate 

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  • Location: Douglas Isle of Man
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@Nick F excellent article! 

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