[MichaelP]

"how come the daily weather person is OFTEN wrong?"

Actually, you'd be suprised how much they are righton. It's around 90 percent. We just notice when they're wrong!

Mike

[Double DDs]

I live in NY and am a weather nut

[microgood]

Actually, you'd be suprised how much they are righton. It's around 90 percent. We just notice when they're wrong!

I assume you are talking the next day. Otherwise we have a problem out in the Seattle area. We had a hot spell which was supposed to cool off in about 3 days. That went on for two weeks. They just moved the day it was supposed to cool off another day each day.

Also in the spring months they are not very good beyond a day.

[R. Scott]

It's around 90 percent.

I kept track of the local forecasters for awhile when they started doing “Accurate, dependable” 10 day forecasts.
They were about 90% accurate for the 24 hour forecast, but their accuracy dropped fast after that. I believe the 48 hour was about 50% and beyond that near 0.