{"id":3720,"date":"2015-07-11T08:26:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2015-07-05T08:40:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T12:40:45","slug":"do-it-yourself-long-range-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/07\/do-it-yourself-long-range-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"“Do-It-Yourself” long range forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I am out of town this week on a mission trip with a group from my church, I may not be able to put up the usual weekly precipitation forecast. \u00a0Here is your handy guide to finding your own long-term forecast info.<\/p>\n

The main site I use for the 7 day QPF (quantitative precipitation forecast) is\u00a0https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/qpf\/day1-7.shtml<\/a>. \u00a0You can get single day maps or accumulated maps for several days up to one week. \u00a0You can also get a look ahead at temperatures at\u00a0https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/<\/a>\u00a0using their outlook maps.<\/p>\n

If you want a lot more information, there are more websites available with lots of weather maps. \u00a0One I like is \u00a0https:\/\/www.tropicaltidbits.com\/analysis\/models\/<\/a>, which gives you access to computer forecast models at a variety of time scales. \u00a0The information that is going to be most useful to you is the 2m (2 meter=6 feet) temperatures and departures and the total accumulated precipitation. \u00a0Remember that these are models and so have their own biases. \u00a0Sometimes they are better than others, and the farther out ahead in time you look, the less likely they are to be correct. \u00a0There are even more model runs at\u00a0https:\/\/weather.cod.edu\/forecast\/<\/a>, but again, tread carefully.<\/p>\n

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Since I am out of town this week on a mission trip with a group from my church, I may not be able to put up the usual weekly precipitation forecast. \u00a0Here is your handy guide to finding your own long-term forecast info. The main site I use for the 7 day QPF (quantitative precipitation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-outlooks","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","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=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}