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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
So they cancelled snowmageddon. I wonder how much pressure the people at EC experience when they under or over forecast these things?
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Ideally, none. Tracking the atmosphere and predicting what it will do is unimaginably hard to do. They use models with countless variables and tell us what usually happens under expected conditions. Usually they’re right, and they don’t get credit when they are.
Forecasting for a city the size of Calgary sucks too. The West end got a decent dump but the East got very little. That happens all the time. It’s snowing like crazy in Strathmore and I wouldn’t be surprised if they get the 10cm that was forecasted.