Monday, May 4, 2009

Jostin's View on Nowcasting

Hey whoever-is-looking-at-my-blog-right-now,

I'm gonna talk about NOWCASTING and how much it affects everyday life. If you make it a habit to wake up in the morning and check out the weather on any network on the TV or check it out on the computer, everything you're reading is nowcasting. Everyone has experienced nowcasting and I mean EVERYBODY... except probably for newborn babies. Basically, nowcasting is forecasting the weather within six to twelve hours of the expected weather. For example, if you and your friends are hanging out and walking outside, it may get darker and you all look up. You see dark clouds forming above in the sky and one of your friends remarks, "It's going to rain. We better go to your house." or something like that. That is what you call nowcasting. Professional nowcasting is a form of very short-range weather forecasting, covering only a very specific geographic area that is usually done by a singular person with advanced meteorological equipment. This kind of weather forecasting is proven to be more effective than most other methods of weather forecasting.

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Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_forecasting#Nowcasting
http://www.enotes.com/science-fact-finder/weather-climate/what-nowcasting