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I have been a huge WeatherUnderground supporter since 2005 when I discovered Jeff Master's hurricane blog. Living in Florida, that blog was a godsend. Weather Channel bought WU (I think) after IBM bought them. And it's been a massacre since. Jeff Masters left and WU forecasts are crap too.
It's been a concerted effort by IBM to destroy our weather forecasting?
We ride also. And your analysis of the appearance of weather getting worse is spot on. That jives with what we've seen with the hurricane forecasts as well as the real time data. The storm strength NEVER matches with the measured wind speed. Michael was bad, really bad, but the measured wind speeds were not Cat 5. Yet they bumped it up to a Cat 5. Why? To scare people...
excellent insight and I think you're over the target
Genius! Also helps when the general public makes plans on those predictions and then had to consider changing their plans cause of that darn global warming climate change problem.
But the weather says a hurricane a commin so we can’t visit the folks for the fourth
I’ve taken to turning off the problematic predictions. Live ya Day anyway
Very interesting.
It makes sense, big tech is getting into the weather game as it’s all about local data collection / mining. It also opens up access to weather stations and monitoring equipment… from there you can now bid on gov contracts for hardware installations.
Apple and Microsoft are small players in the game, IBM on the other hand… loads of gov contracts.
IBM tends to make its people use their own tech products, too, from personal experience, even when they know it's faulty and there are better products out there, lol.
Yeah, bad case of "not made here syndrome". This causes reinventing the wheel, only the new made here wheel is 3 times as expensive and half as performant as normal wheels available on the public market.
Microsoft used to have this badly, it's gotten better.