{"id":11310,"date":"2017-06-03T19:24:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T23:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11310"},"modified":"2017-06-03T19:24:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T23:24:46","slug":"weather-forecasts-are-better-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/weather-forecasts-are-better-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather forecasts are better than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a meteorologist, I hear frequent jokes about having a job where you can be wrong most of the time and still get paid. It might surprise you to know that weather forecasts have improved dramatically in recent years due to a combination of more observations (mostly from satellites), larger and improved computer models, and better ways of communicating forecasts to the public. \u00a0Seth Borenstein of <em>Associated Press<\/em> discusses the changes that have led to better forecasts at <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/ddef161c08884774a87e17611c9170df\/Science-Says:-Weather-forecasts-improve,-under-the-radar\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/ddef161c08884774a87e17611c9170df\/Science-Says:-Weather-forecasts-improve,-under-the-radar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might also be interested in this look back at weather forecasting in the 1940s before computer forecasts were available and graphics were pretty primitive: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalweatherclimatecenter.com\/education\/taking-weather-analysis-back-to-the-early-1940s-credit-this-day-in-weather-history\">https:\/\/www.globalweatherclimatecenter.com\/education\/taking-weather-analysis-back-to-the-early-1940s-credit-this-day-in-weather-history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/us-hor-weather_orig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11316\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/us-hor-weather_orig-242x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/us-hor-weather_orig-242x300.png 242w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/us-hor-weather_orig-111x138.png 111w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/us-hor-weather_orig.png 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a meteorologist, I hear frequent jokes about having a job where you can be wrong most of the time and still get paid. It might surprise you to know that weather forecasts have improved dramatically in recent years due to a combination of more observations (mostly from satellites), larger and improved computer models, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}