Verification of the Ohio 3 to 5 Day Forecast for 1988

Details

• Personal Author:
  Naglic, Steven J.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Weather Service. Eastern Region
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; ER (Eastern Region)
• Description:
  In the fall of 1987, a Cleveland area newspaper wrote an article on 3 to 5 day forecasts. The paper obtained the 3 to 5 day forecasts from several TV stations and the National Weather Service and they did a simple verification on each product. The verification included an evaluation of the temperature forecasts and whether rain occurred when a chance of precipitation was mentioned. According to the results, there was no clear winner because the forecasts were only accurate about 50% of the time. Since the newspaper may have caught the product during a bad month, I conducted another verification project by using Ohio data for calendar year of 1988.
• Keywords:
  Evaluation Weather Forecasting Weather Forecasting
• Series:
  Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.))   90-6B
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Technical Attachment
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0cf0cf41c1ae0a08a184f88ed50676bce70061b0cba2aa34ac95b4f01aaf2ced07abecf6c787939ee6f292d6ff47eb0dadee8dbd9e3926a56bcc22b6a4341111
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/70016/noaa_70016_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.18 MB ]