00Z Reference time: I’m pretty surprised to learn that weather forecasting uses Zulu time.Tmax: Temperature max, the high point of the day.I see, that means that the weather forecasts I’m looking at are for the 48 contiguous states (they exclude Alaska and Hawaii, and US overseas territories). I try to find out what I’m looking at by deciphering each term, one internet search at a time. They make absolutely no sense to me – what’s Tmax? CONUS? And my first thought when I read MAE is to imagine a woman. The only thing I can really do is click in the top left-hand corner of the page to choose a month. ![]() So I go straight to a site mentioned in the article: the National Digital Forecast Database. As ever, though, I’m not really looking for commentary I’m searching for the original numbers on which that analysis is based. So I search for “how accurate is weather forecasting?” and end up at this link. I want to understand whether the NWS has a habit of getting these things wrong. Step 2: Find out whether this was a one-off. ![]() Two hours and 75 tabs later, I realize that if the government could control the weather, the National Weather Service (NWS) might not get their forecasts wrong. They base this claim on the activities of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (Haarp) in Alaska, as well as a US patent titled “Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere”.
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