Weather forecasts to 90 days are scientifically indefensible

The comments from the science community when Accuweather’s started making 45 day weather forecasts were to put it mildly- blistering, and now that they have extended them to 90 days it’s no different.

Forecasts of this type beyond 7-10 days (at the most) are simply not possible. If someone tells you otherwise, they’re wrong, because we are in the realm of palm reading and horoscopes here, not science.

I agree completely with Jason Samenow from the Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post “[AccuWeather] is simply peddling a useless product to people who don’t know better”.

These forecasts are actually even worse than the Farmer’s Almanac, since they give rain chances and temperatures for exact points months into the future!

Read the American Geophysical Union story - “Accuweather Forecasts to 90 Days are Scientifically Indefensible.”

Central and eastern Europe in grip of record-breaking heat wave

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entral and eastern Europe are in the grips of a record-breaking heat wave, that may persist for at least another week to ten days.

A number of locations in Germany set all-time highs last Friday and more records are likely to fall over the coming days, particularly in eastern Europe.

The heat wave commenced late last week. On Friday, Weather Underground meteorologist Bob Henson reported Berlin was among more than 100 towns and cities in Germany that tied or broke all-time record highs. Berlin hit 102 degrees (38.9 Celsius) breaking its previous hottest temperature of 101.5 degrees (38.6 Celsius).

Read The Washington Post story - “Central and eastern Europe simmering in historic heat wave”.