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The statistic comes from Eric Floehr. He should know, because his company, ForecastWatch, calculates how accurate forecasts are and sells the data to meteorologists and other companies.
In your hometown, meteorologists may be more or less accurate than the national average, given the stability of your local conditions. You can use ForecastAdvisor.com, a website for consumers instead of companies, to plug in your Zip Code and see how accurate the top weather companies and the National Weather Service are at predicting your local weather.
**According to an e-mail exchange with Eric Floehr, "Obviously there are a lot of caveats to that statement. For example, what exactly does "correctly" mean? But I think that's more detail than your readers really care about."
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If any readers are interested in the details, after getting your city's forecast and accuracy info, click on the "Further Analysis" link at the bottom right of the page. There you will find temperature and precipitation breakdowns, and how the numbers were calculated.
Also, if you are interested in even more detail, take a look at ForecastWatch.com and sign up for a demo account. All the data used at ForecastAdvisor.com comes from there.
Posted By Eric Floehr on September 4, 2007, 8:52 AM
Ich lese Blogs. Es ist sogar besser als Lesen von Zeitschriften oder Bücher.
Posted By uleglem wypadkowi on March 7, 2012, 10:56 AM
Can you register to your rss feed of responses for this page in any way? Where can I find the link for this.
Posted By pizzerii on March 11, 2012, 10:25 AM