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Assignment 5: Forecast Practice/Forecast Challenges

1. Reading  

Read the MetEd module on Numerical Weather Prediction (COMET/UCAR)
Read the chapter on Weather Forecasting from the text book Ahrens: Meteorology Today and answers attached questions.

2. Current Weather - Practice on Forecast Contest

Part 2 of today’s assignment consists of a ‘mock forecast contest’, in preparation for next week ‘real forecast contest’!    We will practice looking at today’s weather and forecast outputs and forecast the following three quantities:

Maximum Temperature (Tmax)

Minimum Temperature (Tmin)

Precipitation (Pcat)

for Boston over the following day:

Thursday, January 17, 06 GMT – 18, 06 GMT  

All information should be recorded in the Forecast Sheet and submitted by 7pm.

3. Case study: Forecast Challenges

In this part of the assignment you are asked to answer some question about common forecast challenges.

Note: you don't need the web for this part of the Assignment. Use the hand out given in class.

NOTE.  This is what is expected from Assignment 5:

Part 1- Reading

a.) Numerical Weather Prediction (MetEd from COMET)

b.) Ahrens: Meteorology Today and answer 3 questions.

Part 2 - Current Weather

a.) Submit Forecast for Thursday

Part 3

a.) Answer Forecast Challenges

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