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May 15 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
This is a weather post, but it's important and matters. 🤓
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Weather balloons are launched at numerous spots across the world at around the same time daily. In the United States this time of year, that's around 8pm and 8am ET. Here's where weather balloons collected data early Wednesday evening...
Sep 5, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Several problems here, so here goes: 1) This "spaghetti plot" leverages model data and represents the track of #Dorian over time. Some models (the GFS/America and European/ECMWF) have ensembles or numerous iterations of the model with different initial conditions.
2) The line with shapes are true operational "models", the lines without shapes are ensembles of the American/GFS and European/ECMWF model. Notice no operational model goes through Alabama. 3) Ensembles are supposed to be noisy because they have different initial conditions.
