I think young people probably aren’t even aware of how rapidly and dramatically weather forecasting has improved in the last couple of decades.
The reason there used to be a lot of (lame) jokes about weathermen is because the forecast wasn’t much more useful than 50/50, at least when it came to precipitation. Temperature would usually get you a reasonable range.
In the '90s, we are getting a general idea of the day’s weather, maybe. Now you can plan vacation packing around the forecast. It’s amazing.
Don’t worry, the melting mango is currently dismantling tools we all rely on for forecasts, so we can soon get back to those halcyon days of not knowing weather in the distant future of the next day.
I think the hard part is finding non-sensationalized forecasting. If you listen to the news they turn everything into disaster movie storms. They pick the worst potential outcome. 2-4” of snow with a potential for 8” if some unlikely combination of air masses combine?“OmG SnOwMaGeDdOn!1!” Meanwhile most get a dusting to 2”.
If you want actual decent weather you’ll need to go to sources like NOAA that don’t spoon feed you clickbait.
There was a time when the least trusted part of the news was the weather
I think young people probably aren’t even aware of how rapidly and dramatically weather forecasting has improved in the last couple of decades.
The reason there used to be a lot of (lame) jokes about weathermen is because the forecast wasn’t much more useful than 50/50, at least when it came to precipitation. Temperature would usually get you a reasonable range.
In the '90s, we are getting a general idea of the day’s weather, maybe. Now you can plan vacation packing around the forecast. It’s amazing.
Don’t worry, the melting mango is currently dismantling tools we all rely on for forecasts, so we can soon get back to those halcyon days of not knowing weather in the distant future of the next day.
I think the hard part is finding non-sensationalized forecasting. If you listen to the news they turn everything into disaster movie storms. They pick the worst potential outcome. 2-4” of snow with a potential for 8” if some unlikely combination of air masses combine?“OmG SnOwMaGeDdOn!1!” Meanwhile most get a dusting to 2”.
If you want actual decent weather you’ll need to go to sources like NOAA that don’t spoon feed you clickbait.
Distributed sensors, high res satellites, supercomputer modeling, we’ve come a long way for sure