• gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure enough of these moments is why we now have absolutely catastrophic weather forecasts every other week but they usually aren’t so bad

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      5 hours ago

      Climate change has increased the chance for extreme weather and made it harder to predict when it will actually happen. Those moments happened more when the models weren’t taking into account what climate change has done.

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        4 hours ago

        I’ve seen the climate shift before my eyes too but I mean the specific storm predictions but not hurricanes tracking which has actually become very accurate

        The local storm predictions I will watch update in real time and dramatically reduce all their numbers as it comes in that it wasn’t the worst case scenario

        It’ll be “accurate” when it finally is the worst case scenario so nobody will be underprepared but it annoys me that it’s constant specific forecasting doom until it isn’t

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      5 hours ago

      After watching weather with my own peepers for close to five decades in a cognitive capacity, I can safely say that weather is just getting more extreme all around.

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        5 hours ago

        It’s over 80° in Phoenix and parts of SoCal this week, the first week of February. We’re absolutely fucking fucked.

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            6 hours ago

            The European weather models have also been overstating severe weather

            I really just think it’s as I said and nobody wants to be caught under predicting weather so they default to the worst values their models predict