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Old Dec 8, 2005 | 04:19 PM
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The weather poeple never cease to amaze me.

Old Dec 8, 2005 | 04:20 PM
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Finally they are admitting they don't know what they are talking about....

Strangely, though, they can predict ice and freezing rain very accurately, but can't predict snow to save their lives.
Old Dec 8, 2005 | 09:21 PM
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Maybe if you considered that weather people actually have the most advanced computer systems in the world, more than technology servers. They operate in transmitting information at teraflops. Billions if not trillions of calculations are made in weather so I never blame them if they get it wrong. Weather is almost impossible to predict especially for certain areas.

I worked for a company that does government contracting and we worked with developers and the government. They definitely have the fastest computers out there.
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Originally Posted by D_Eclipse9916
Maybe if you considered that weather people actually have the most advanced computer systems in the world, more than technology servers. They operate in transmitting information at teraflops. Billions if not trillions of calculations are made in weather so I never blame them if they get it wrong. Weather is almost impossible to predict especially for certain areas.

I worked for a company that does government contracting and we worked with developers and the government. They definitely have the fastest computers out there.
And they still get a lot of things wrong. That doesn't tell you something?
Old Dec 8, 2005 | 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Keepin it Klean
And they still get a lot of things wrong. That doesn't tell you something?
That weather predicting is freaking hard as shit?
Old Dec 9, 2005 | 03:45 AM
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They don't have the fastest computers out there. There's a guy at work that bought the fastest computer evAr made! It's a Commodore 64. It's the speed of light.




















































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Originally Posted by D_Eclipse9916
Maybe if you considered that weather people actually have the most advanced computer systems in the world, more than technology servers. They operate in transmitting information at teraflops. Billions if not trillions of calculations are made in weather so I never blame them if they get it wrong. Weather is almost impossible to predict especially for certain areas.

I worked for a company that does government contracting and we worked with developers and the government. They definitely have the fastest computers out there.
Funny that 10 years ago they were about 80-90% accurate. Compare that with their 10% accuracy the last few years...

What does that tell you? Maybe they are relying too much on these computers and not devoting enough time to learning their practice.
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haha now where are you getting these numbers from?
Old Dec 9, 2005 | 02:05 PM
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haha now where are you getting these numbers from?
If your talking to me, its the:

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administraion.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClic...=122&map.y=141
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I can predict the weather perfectly.



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