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That’s what I’m hearing on local weather. Better chance of snow south and east of Charlotte.Beach looks like it’s going to get some nice snow.
Maybe it’s a reverse jinx.They really flopped with this... Nothing expected in the western triangle now and the beach won't even get but a couple of inches. Dud
I'm a little late to reply to this as I haven't been on this thread, but here goes.My problem is that they often present information in a way that implies some level of precision.
If you're going to say 1-3", that range itself should incorporate the variability - within one standard deviation or so. If that means your forecast looking a week out has to say you are expecting 0-20" then so be it. Don't pretend to have knowledge that you don't have.
I used to complain about this to my meteorologist brother. He explained that in the NWS (at least in their standard communication releases) they were pretty rigid and couldn't do statistical probability type forecasting.
I once read a study about weather forecasts focused on atypical weather (all storms, not just snow) and how the location of the forecaster vis-a-vis the location forecasted impacted the "reliability" of the forecast (or how close the forecast came to being correct). If I remember correctly, this study looked at forecasts something ike 5 days out.Maybe we'll see some snow fall in central NC tomorrow night but it won't be much. I know it is really hard to forecast snow here and the weather models can't be trusted more than 48 to 72 hours out. I think WRAL purposely forecasts low qhen it comes to snow, though, and adjust if needed when the event starts. They would rather foeecast too little than to forecast a big storm and it end up being a bust.
Due to the cold or are they just tired of the kids?Wake County schools dismissing an hour early today.
Its a Blue county..Lots of the kids were depressedDue to the cold or are they just tired of the kids?
Guilford County schools too. It's because of the possibility of some northerly bands of snow moving through. Given the temps anything that falls will stick and make roads slick pretty quickly.Due to the cold or are they just tired of the kids?