November 2019 Forecasts and Discussions

[AbbyJr]

Snow Wizard on the A forums says the ECMWF has a strong late December cold signal for the PNW. Not sure what he see's that I don't see.

[AbbyJr]

My wife just asked me when is the summer going to come. Too cold for her outside.

Nito has all those details worked out. Refer her to him.

[Storm]

Snow Wizard on the A forums says the ECMWF has a strong late December cold signal for the PNW. Not sure what he see's that I don't see.

Euro Weeklies

[Storm]

Nito has all those details worked out. Refer her to him.

If she knows about this forum, she would probably think that we a bunch of idiots cheering for cold and snow.

[AbbyJr]

Euro Weeklies

Yeah I forgot about those. But aren't they known for being utter trash? I recall them being criticized at one point.

[AbbyJr]

Its only 552 hours away!

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[Forrest Gump]

My wife just asked me when is the summer going to come. Too cold for her outside.

You would think that all the shopping on black Friday would have warmed her up.

[Roberts Creeker]

Good morning Ms. Creeks got anything handy to wake up Gimpy?

Last week's empty can of sardines? He can probably smell them from here

[Typeing3]

Down to -2.5C here. Chilly!

[Roberts Creeker]

Yup, worth it. Was there a couple times this week already.

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Wow how'd they get the swans to hold still while they put the lights on?

Tomorrow night I'm going to or local F ESTIVAL OF LIGHTS Parade, oops all caps on my tablet using swipytype so it's staying, it's awesome because it's all the big construction trucks and equipment covered in lights. I'll share pics tomorrow. It's one of my favorite things.

[Forrest Gump]

Look out Jr, there's an oiler nut on board ,just in time for the back to back games.

[Forrest Gump]

Weather Experts Are Really Worried About The Current Global 5G Deal. Here's Why

A long-awaited international deal governing how the world's technology companies should roll out 5G technology poses serious risks to weather forecast accuracy, according to data from federal agencies and the World Meteorological Organization.
Negotiators from around the world announced a deal Friday at a meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for how to roll out 5G technology that operates using specific radio frequency bands.
Studies completed before the negotiations by US government agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the Navy had warned that 5G equipment operating in the 24-gigahertz frequency band could interfere with transmissions from polar-orbiting satellites used to gather weather data.
This could make forecasts much less reliable, the reports found.
Specifically, these highly technical analyses concluded that if deployed widely and without adequate constraints, telecommunications equipment operating in the 24 GHz frequency band would bleed into the frequencies that NOAA and NASA satellite sensors also use to sense the presence and properties of water vapor in the atmosphere, significantly interfering with the collection and transmission of critical weather data.

The most important data that goes into computer models used for weather forecasting comes from microwave sounders mounted on polar-orbiting satellites. Any degradation of this data could harm forecast accuracy by introducing blind spots in these models.
In fact, Neil Jacobs, the acting administrator of NOAA, has warned that if his agency's study proves correct, weather forecasting could decline by up to 30 percent, going back to the accuracy of 1980.

The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the UK, which has a weather model that typically outranks the US for its accuracy, released a statement on Monday harshly criticizing the outcome of the 5G meeting.
The statement says the agreement "falls far short of ensuring 5G applications do not interfere with weather observations," and compares the 5G agreement to the world's lack of action in response to decades of scientific warnings on climate change.
"It is worrying and disheartening to watch history repeat itself and science losing to other societal pressures," the ECMWF stated.

We need our weather models to be improving, not getting worse, and that's something that President Trump has said himself," she said.

https://www.sciencealert.com/global-5g- ... s-warn/amp

[LadnerWeather]

Down to -2.5C here. Chilly!

-4.2 now, got down to -5.5c this morning. Its amazing how it can cool down out here in these situations. Burns Bog has had some low temps the last couple days as well.

[AbbyJr]

Well then...

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[VanCitySouth]

Heyo. Just did my CFP exam today, 9 AM to 4:30 PM exam (lunch break in between, it's not completely inhumane), then went to a friend's to commiserate over food and drinks.

What'd I miss?