Shoeflyin: I wrote to my regional nws office because radar doesnt even show some precipitation in my area. Found out "we cant see below 10000 feet" in my area because of radar placement and mountains. My county is yellow amid the green here.

How accurate is the weather forecast in your city? Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Kinda curious what this plot would look like for precipitation predictions, which is often more important

I wrote to my regional nws office because radar doesnt even show some precipitation in my area. Found out "we cant see below 10000 feet" in my area because of radar placement and mountains. My county is yellow amid the green here.

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