COSMIC-2, a clutch of six spacecraft that, once up and running, are expected to improve weather prediction computer models on short time scales, making hurricane and extreme weather prediction more accurate.
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The Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, monitors heavy rains.
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Supercomputers are used for scientific research, including medical treatments and weather prediction.
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Early Tuesday, the Weather Prediction Center said the storm could be historic, but Rich Otto, lead forecaster at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center outside of Washington, said that may have been going a bit too far.
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NOAA's weather-prediction system is built by Cray, Dell (DELL) and IBM (IBM).
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This solar flare caused moderate radio blackouts, according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.
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But Bjerknes's key insight was that weather prediction could be framed as a hypothesis.
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They work with the NOAA and NASA to provide info for space weather prediction services.
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Meanwhile, private companies are increasingly jumping into the fray, seeing business opportunities in weather prediction.
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"This isn't over," said David Roth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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My kind of VR software is related to those used in flight simulation or weather prediction.
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We will be contributing towards the improvement of weather prediction and supporting the farmers and agriculture.
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There's more to modern weather prediction, of course, than just extrapolating the path of a storm.
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"This is an ongoing threat," said meteorologist Brian Hurley at the NNWS Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.
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The Weather Prediction Center tweeted an example of such an occurrence in December and January of 1987.
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"In certain aspects, this one is bad," says Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center.
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"This is an ongoing threat," said meteorologist Brian Hurley at the NWS Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.
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This will likely "generate some measure of impact on the output of our numerical weather prediction systems."
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And so weather prediction has been a marvel not only of technology but also of international coöperation.
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The machines serve China's government and its largest technology companies, powering everything from military simulations to weather prediction.
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It was as if Punxsutawney Phil were making his Groundhog Day weather prediction in a teeming conference room.
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Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly identified the Space Weather Prediction Center as being run by NASA.
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Wun and Sorkin met in 1996 in the early days of the development of mapping and weather prediction technologies.
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Company: ClimaCellTotal raised: Undisclosed but over $70 millionClimacell offers AI-powered weather prediction software for hyper-local weather information.
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It killed at least 383 people, caused about $700 million of damage, and became a weather prediction case study.
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And on Wednesday, it took its first big step: It chose a framework for a shiny new weather prediction model.
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NOAA's new GOES-16 satellite—the most advanced tool in the agency's weather-prediction arsenal—doesn't just take pretty pictures.
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"This is potentially a life-threatening storm," said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the NWS Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.
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"We think the heaviest rainfall will be today and tomorrow," says Dan Petersen, a forecaster with the Weather Prediction Center.
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You can see the Space Weather Prediction Center's forecast here, or use an Aurora app (Wright uses My Aurora Forecast).
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The method might seem simple, but St. Cyr said it hasn't been combined into a solar weather prediction system before.
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What's also notable about this storm is how far in advance many weather prediction models have converged on the forecast.
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"This is getting bad," said meteorologist Marc Chenard, with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland.
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"Holiday travel will likely be poor across much of the northern-tier states," the weather service's Weather Prediction Center said.
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"It's going to be heavy and fast," said Bob Oravec, meteorologist with the NWS's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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If you want to keep an eye on auroras in your area, check the Space Weather Prediction Center's 30-minute forecast.
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NASA operates a slew of space weather prediction systems, but many have been around for several decades and have various drawbacks.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Colorado keeps tabs on the sun's activity from Earth.
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"The big ones are at record stages right now," said meteorologist Marc Chenard with the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center.
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One day, they may be used for weather prediction, oil and gas industry ocean operations, or even to police illegal fishing.
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Currently, the Space Weather Prediction Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides regional-level space weather warnings and alerts.
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And it is downright illegal to publicly pronounce a weather prediction from an official capacity that is known to be false.
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This week's storm also qualified as a bomb cyclone and could lead to further flooding, said Weather Prediction Center meteorologist Marc Chenard.
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The heat wave will likely be "short and searing," said Greg Carbin, forecast branch chief for the weather service's Weather Prediction Center.
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That money has been spent on all kinds of new technology, according to David Novak, director of the agency's Weather Prediction Center.
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"Rain rates approaching 1 inch an hour is very possible with this event," the Weather Prediction Center said in its forecast discussion.
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And got their start in the business co-founding Zeus, a weather prediction technology developer that was pitching its services to commodities traders.
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"This is a dangerous, vigorous storm," Jim Hayes, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in Maryland, said early Wednesday.
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Mr Blum runs through the early history of weather prediction before embarking on a grand tour of forecasting institutions across Europe and America.
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For example, here's how the Weather Prediction Center, a unit of the National Weather Service (NWS), described the storm threat on Wednesday morning.
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Some winds gusted up to 80 mph (129 kph), said meteorologist Bob Oravec of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.
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"This is serious, water could easily breach those levees," David Roth of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland.
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The National Weather Service is able to predict space weather using the Space Weather Prediction Center, on a scale from hours to weeks.
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If Frederick's intention was to evoke a concern for environmental degradation, her pulp paintings and Weather Prediction are where she is more successful.
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"It's the vegetation that holds the soil in place," Brian Hurley, a forecaster with the NWS's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said.
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We take a look at the vast international collaboration that is weather prediction, where it's heading and how climate change could make it harder.
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Weather prediction represents "a last bastion of international co-operation", a global effort to warn of natural disasters that ravage crops and displace communities.
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But as NOAA Weather Prediction Center senior forecaster David Roth noted in a tweet, an adjustment for latitude would put Wesley in that definition.
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US. "Most of this storm developed right over Houston Thursday evening," said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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"Most locations neighboring the I-95 corridor will receive around 1 inch of rainfall with locally higher amounts possible," NOAA's Weather Prediction Center said.
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"The real danger comes from the wind and ice accumulation," said forecaster Bob Oravec, of the NWS' Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland.
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According to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, an explosion of solar energy from the sun is set to slam into the Earth Wednesday night.
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"This is sort of the theme of this winter," said meteorologist Dan Petersen of the weather service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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On Saturday, March 23, the Space Weather Prediction Center issued a "moderate" geomagnetic storm watch, which increases the likelihood of an intensified Northern Lights.
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Downpours are expected by early Sunday afternoon, said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"There's some digging out to do," Jim Hayes, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said early Monday.
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"This was a monster, no question about it," Greg Carbin at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Weather Prediction Center told the Omaha World-Herald.
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"Along that boundary we keep getting storms to fire up," said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the NWS's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"This storm won't be as widespread as before," said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"We've really seen the end of it," said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Serices's (NWS) Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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One sunny spring morning last year, I sat in on an undergraduate course at the University of Washington called Weather Prediction and Advanced Synoptic Analysis.
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The weather system is expected to produce "a band of possibly heavy snow from the central Rockies northeastward" on Thursday, tweeted NOAA's Weather Prediction Center.
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In the Southwest, those temperatures could linger for about three to four days, Michael Schichtel, the lead forecaster at the Weather Prediction Center, said Thursday.
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Parts of northern Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia are under a high risk (level 4 of 4) for flash flooding, according to the Weather Prediction Center.
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The rain will help clear that out, said Patrick Burke, a lede forecaster with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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An estimated 10 million people live in areas expected to be placed under a hurricane or storm advisory, according to the U.S. Weather Prediction Center.
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Overnight temperatures over the weekend will not drop below 2100 degrees in many cities across the East Coast, the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said.
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"There's still a few headlines left on this storm," said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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But in November 30, Lorenz described it during the Q&A session following a talk he gave at a conference on numerical weather prediction in Tokyo.
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With more heavy rain, there's potential for flash flooding in areas where the ground is already wet, according to the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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For the first time in 73 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration introduced a major software upgrade at the heart of its weather prediction capability.
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"Record warmth is possible from (Washington) DC southward into Florida, while much below average temperatures stretch through the Plains," the Weather Prediction Center forecast Friday morning.
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Andy Karl ("Rocky") stars as Phil Connors, assigned to Punxsutawney, Pa., for the annual weather-prediction event, who gets stuck in a world with no future.
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The October 24, 2014, flare affected some radio communication systems, like plane and radar systems, according to the US National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center.
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Tropical Depression Imelda lashed southeast Texas overnight — and the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center warns it could bring heavy rains and life-threatening flash floods.
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In some of those places, exposed skin could freeze within 223 minutes, said meteorologist Dan Petersen of the National Weather Service's Maryland-based Weather Prediction Center.
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"You're talking about frostbite and hypothermia issues very quickly, like in a matter of minutes, maybe seconds," said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center.
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"The coldest of the arctic air is just now arriving onto the East Coast," meteorologist Patrick Burke of the Weather Prediction Center said in a telephone interview.
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The Space Weather Prediction Center is still analyzing data to see exactly what we're in store for when it comes to the X-flares and possible impacts.
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The answer has to do with the air currents in the atmosphere, according to Mark Chenard, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center in College Mark, Maryland.
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Still, several feet of snow are likely in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, according to the Weather Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Over the weekend, a total of 214 tornadoes were reported hitting states from Texas to Alabama, the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center Bob Oravec told Reuters.
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"This is the precursor to the stronger cold front that's coming," Jackson said by phone from the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"Relief is on the way, but don't expect it before Friday night," said Richard Bann, a meteorologist with the NWS Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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The National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said conditions looked highly favorable in Oregon and the Tennessee Valley, with cloud cover forecast at 10 percent or less.
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"The worst of this (weather) is coming later today and tonight," Marc Chenard, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center, said early on Tuesday.
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Accurate weather prediction affects each of us far more intimately and permanently than even, say, the presidential election — yet it gets little press and even less funding.
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Ott sees this as a more likely avenue for improving weather prediction and similar efforts, since we don't always have complete high-resolution data or perfect physical models.
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"The fear is that the rain will drop in intense bursts," Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the federal Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said early Sunday.
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"It's a pretty high-impact event over a very large area," Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the agency's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said by telephone.
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This can cause radio devices to go dead, as Thomas Berger, director of the Space Weather Prediction Center at NOAA, told Gizmodo last summer:Radio communications are sometimes impacted.
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Yet much as meteorologists thrive on competition, Mr Blum notes that weather prediction ultimately depends on global teamwork, facilitated by institutions such as the UN's World Meteorological Organisation.
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The floodwaters were the result of snowmelt following heavy rains last week and warm weather, said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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The province of the aforementioned horrifyingly complicated algorithms, Numerical Weather Prediction addresses a range of time scales, from three days out to the vast arcs of climatic change.
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Rainfall could trigger flash flooding on Tuesday evening in parts of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa, said Brian Hurley, a senior meteorologist at the federal Weather Prediction Center.
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"If you're a farmer in Kenya or Kansas, you will get a way better weather prediction," said Ginny Rometty, the CEO of IBM, announcing the service today at CES.
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The plan was to use the desk computer, then a total novelty, to test competing strategies of weather prediction in a way you couldn't do with pencil and paper.
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"By time we get to (Saturday) is when the snow will begin (in the Carolinas)," said Richard Bann, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"The big one is rolling in late morning today, that's for darn sure," said meteorologist David Roth with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"The cold air isn't pushing off anywhere, it's just sort of evaporating," said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"I would not drive out of my way for this particular event," said Terry Onsager, a physicist at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, which issued the geomagnetic storm watch.
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Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said temperatures Sunday morning could hit record lows from South Carolina to Maine.
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Weather prediction has become significantly more reliable in recent years, but we still need far more precise forecasts of the track, intensity and timing of hurricanes to safeguard society.
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"We're looking at widespread flooding that continues until at least early next week in the Plains and Midwest region," said meteorologist Marc Chenard with the service's Weather Prediction Center.
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"The (Pineapple) Express is no joke," said Bob Oravec, meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland of the strongest weather system of the season.
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The Weather Prediction Service does warn of "moderate" risks of flash flooding from heavy rainfall along the south side of the Ohio River Vally, affecting Kentucky, and perhaps southern Indiana.
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According to meteorologist Alex Lamers of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, meteorologists are scrambling to understand how this storm got so strong, so quickly.
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"You're talking about frostbite and hypothermia issues very quickly, like in a matter of minutes, maybe seconds," said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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The flood waters were the result of snow melt following heavy rains last week and warm temperatures, said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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CDT (23 GMT) was about 45 miles (75 km) northwest of Jackson with maximum sustained winds of 30 miles per hour (45 km per hour), the Weather Prediction Center said.
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"As the storm intensifies and heads toward the upper Midwest, a wind-driven cold rain is expected to spread across the central Plains on Saturday," the Weather Prediction Center said.
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New York could see up to four inches of snow, Philadelphia could get two and Washington will most likely have about an inch, the Weather Prediction Center said on Sunday.
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While the low pressure system doesn't qualify as a tropical storm, daily rainfall records could be set before it crosses over Florida, the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center tweeted.
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In the House on Wednesday, the Science Committee's environment subcommittee will hear from private and university weather prediction officials about the products and technologies that the private weather sector uses.
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A wide-reaching observation network was the first step toward weather prediction; the next was to input the data into a mathematical model of the atmosphere to produce short-term forecasts.
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"This isn't over," said David Roth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center, adding the Missouri River will see several more major flood crests over the next week.
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During all the rainfall, a small tornado touched down in the Sacramento area on Tuesday, twisting two metal awnings and stripping limbs off trees, Weather Prediction Center meteorologist Bob Oravec said.
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"They're baking out there," said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist with the service's Weather Prediction Center, in College Park, Md. The smoldering heat has upended daily life over much of the West.
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"The heaviest snow is expected to fall across the higher terrain of central Wyoming and north-central Colorado, with up to a foot of accumulation possible," the Weather Prediction Center said.
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"Areas of significant flooding and flash flooding are expected today into tonight across portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and the far western Carolinas," the Weather Prediction Center posted Monday.
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The nor'easter storm is on track to dump up between 12 and 18 inches of snow on areas from Philadelphia to New York City, said Weather Prediction Center meteorologist Dan Petersen.
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Together, they decide to take a gas balloon up higher than anyone has gone before, breaking a world record and simultaneously getting some data needed for Glaisher's studies into weather prediction.
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Now, with better weather prediction, better automation, understanding exactly how much fertilizer to put in each place, that's a yielded benefit on top of what the basic seed improvement is giving us.
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Yesterday, the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center tweeted that the "breadth and intensity of this rainfall are beyond anything experienced before," and that the "catastrophic flooding" is expected to last days.
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Bridle has spent the last decade making drones more relatable, uncovering the mysteries of weather prediction, and otherwise trying to elucidate the invisible technologies—usually military in origin—that rule our world.
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Forecasters at the NWS Weather Prediction Center said that the good news for the southeast region is that only a few afternoon "pop-up" thunderstorms are expected over the next few days.
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Finding potential connections between weather satellite images and six years of UK polling figures, Bridle's Cloud Index is inspired both by numerical weather prediction and the new wave of machine learning algorithms.
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Brian Hurley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md., said flash freezes pose an especially high danger of "black ice" conditions on roads and sidewalks.
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Moon Over the Lake (2015), another pulp painting ensconced behind Weather Prediction, juxtaposes a Buckminster Fuller–esque orb against a background of black and the deep blue foreground of the titular lake.
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"The ground is pretty saturated so it doesn't take a whole lot of rain to get some additional flooding," said NWS meteorologist Mark Chenard at the Weather Prediction Center in College Park.
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As a result of the most recent solar flares, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a moderate geomagnetic storm watch for September 13, and a minor geomagnetic storm watch for September 14.
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"Right now there's a lot of models that are pointing to this big snowstorm for a good portion of the eastern U.S.," said Otto, with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"We could have the potential for major river flooding, given the rain and the snow melt," meteorologist Mark Chenard said in by telephone from the NWS Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"It's pretty hot right now from the Plains states all the way through the Mississippi Valley to the East Coast," said Alex Lamers, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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"It looks to stay quite wet over the next week across the central portion of the country," said meteorologist Mark Chenard of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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And according to a weather prediction released earlier this year by the Paraguayan government's Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, a new round of flooding expected in June may be the worst on record.
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Most smartphones have had a barometric sensor inside them since 2014, but until now, meteorologists and data scientists haven't been able to capture the data at scale and use it for weather prediction.
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" Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, said she was "deeply troubled that NOAA is politicizing weather prediction critical for the protection of life and property in contravention of internal operations services and policy directives.
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"It's already not looking good downstream for the middle and lower Mississippi and Missouri (rivers) into Kansas, Mississippi and Missouri," Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the NWS's Weather Prediction Center, said early Wednesday.
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It was uncertain if it would hit or just brush by the southern edge of the Big Island, said a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland.
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But when it comes to weather prediction, America lags behind a European prediction model that does a better job at telling us how warm or cold it will be three to 10 days out.
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By then, it will have dumped 53 inches of snow on Philadelphia, 12 inches on New York City, and 17 inches over northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, said Weather Prediction Center meteorologist Marc Chenard.
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The Louisiana floods have generated some debate in the weather community, since the Weather Prediction Center in Maryland, which is responsible for flood forecasting, wrote that it described the storm as tropical in origin.
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Precisely, this is done using a version of the highly successful numerical weather prediction system of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which comprehensively accounts for emissions and atmospheric composition processes.
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In fact, relying on a new technique that uses modern weather prediction to fine-tune water supplies, the city continued to draw water from key reservoirs at normal rates while waiting for warmer weather.
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The Weather Service issued winter storm warnings or advisories for a swath of the eastern United States that is home to 33 million people, said meteorologist Rich Otto of the U.S. Weather Prediction Center.
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Thirteen tornados were reported Thursday in Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the National Weather Center's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, but no immediate reports of serious damage.
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NOAA's Space Weather Prediction announced last week that there was a possibility the Aurora Borealis would be visible "as low as New York to Wisconsin to Washington State," on Sunday night into Monday morning.
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"There are numerous reports of wind damage from downed trees hitting powerlines and transformers, through New Jersey and southern New York," said Bob Oravec of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.
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From GPS and missile warning to secure communications and weather prediction, we've launched the satellites the military intelligence community depend on for every mission – and we've done so with reliability no one can match.
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But for the seriously dedicated sunspotters, it's worth checking out NASA's Solar Dynamics observatory or NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, which both do an excellent job monitoring sunspots and all kinds of space weather.
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From GPS and missile warning to secure communications and weather prediction, we've launched the satellites the military intelligence community depends on for every mission — and we've done so with reliability no one can match.
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The storm hit Kansas and Missouri on Friday and pummeled those states again on Saturday as it extended into parts of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, said U.S. Weather Prediction Center meteorologist Andrew Orrison.
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Glaisher is taking the trip to test his theories of weather prediction — this being London, those mostly amount to determining the likelihood of a drizzle versus a downpour — and Amelia's carnival antics annoy him.
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"It looks to stay quite wet over the next week across the central portion of the country," said meteorologist Mark Chenard of the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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While the weakening storm system moved into the Great Lakes region early Wednesday, another system was expected to brew Wednesday night into Thursday, said Brian Hurley, a forecaster with the service's Weather Prediction Center.
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The brutal cold in parts of the East Coast and Midwest shows no sign of abating this weekend, but a thaw should begin on Monday, said meteorologist Bob Oravec of the Weather Prediction Center.
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"A significant, and potentially historic, October winter storm is on track to impact the northern Rockies, and areas of the central and northern Plains through Saturday," the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center said Wednesday.
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"As a United States Representative from Oklahoma, I have led efforts to improve severe weather prediction and I have come to appreciate how complex Earth is as a system," he wrote in a Senate questionnaire.
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The snow began falling heavily on Friday in parts of Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia and lasted until mid-day on Saturday, meteorologist Andrew Orrison of the Weather Prediction Center said by phone.
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Bob Oravec, a meteorologist for the service's Weather Prediction Center, said the agency rarely issues risk levels that high - level four on their five-step scale, meaning long-lived, widespread and intense storms are likely.
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The storms stretch from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest and were moving into the Northeast and New England Sunday, said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the NWS's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"It's just not going to give the river the chance to recede over the next couple of days," said Dan Petersen, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Heavy rains could strike the Florida panhandle early next week, but not as intensely as in Texas, Daniel Petersen, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center in Maryland, said in a phone interview on Saturday.
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But let's remember that coastal protection, better weather prediction, a reserve fund for future disasters and other forward-looking parts of the Sandy aid package were shamefully and falsely condemned as "pork" by Texas Sen.
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Snow is expected to be heaviest in New Hampshire and Maine, particularly in Portland and Bangor, Me., said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center, which is part of the National Weather Service.
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"This has been a really long-lived and intense storm that effected the entire nation for the past five or six days," said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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A total of 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8 cm) of rain is forecast for areas burned by the Camp Fire from Wednesday through Saturday, said meteorologist David Roth of the federal Weather Prediction Center.
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Temperatures fell to single-digits Farhenheit from New York City to Boston and froze melting snow late Sunday and early Monday, said Marc Chenard at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Bob Rutledge, lead forecaster at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, confirmed receiving "isolated" reports from the Caribbean about radio blackouts related to the series of solar flares observed on the Sun this week, including from HWN.
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In a related example, using weather prediction models, GoodLands can show the Church which dioceses are likely to need aid or assistance in the coming years based off likelihood of hurricanes and other destructive natural disasters.
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Temperatures in parts of Montana could plummet to record lows for this day of around minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 34 degrees Celsius), meteorologist Kenneth James of the Weather Prediction Center said in a phone interview.
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"The good news is that apart from some very light rain tonight, this will be generally a dry week across the region," said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's (NWS) Weather Prediction Center.
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Though climate change can exacerbate extreme weather events, Richard Otto, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather Prediction Center, said that the pattern the region was experiencing was not unusual for early March.
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"Our forecasts have been getting a lot better over the past 10 to 20 years, but early-season snowstorms are still difficult," said Brian Hurley, a senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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Here's what else to expect across the country: The West Coast: A soggy, windy and snowy week A dangerous storm is heading toward southwest Oregon and northwest California, the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center said.
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"Even though it's not a major winter storm, it's enough to make the roads sloppy and snow-packed in cases," said meteorologist Patrick Burke of the weather service's National Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Rainfall amounts of 4–6 inches with isolated totals of 10 inches were possible across portions of southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana through Thursday, the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center said in an advisory Tuesday.
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"The danger is black ice, ice that's difficult to see on roads, caused by the re-freezing of snow melt," said David Roth, a forecaster with the National Weather Service' Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland.
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On the brighter side, the region appears to be headed for a few days without rain heading into the weekend, said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Because the city's pumping and drainage system has recently failed, cutting its pump capacity by half, there could be flooding there, and that's something that the Weather Prediction Center is going to be monitoring closely, Petersen says.
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By removing the expense of keeping humans alive on or under the sea, these technologies vastly expand the volume of the ocean which can be monitored and measured, whether it be for fishery management or weather prediction.
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The winter weather triggering alarm in the South is only a precursor to a storm forecast to dump snow across the U.S. Northeast starting on Friday, said Rich Otto, a meteorologist with the NWS Weather Prediction Center.
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If the temperature rises just a few degrees, melting more ice and snow, that could quickly push the estimated river crest higher, said David Roth of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Greg Carbin, the forecast operations branch chief at the Weather Prediction Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said on Tuesday that he saw nothing in the forecast to deter anyone from going to the polls.
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Budget cuts and program delays have left the whole system is remarkably fragile: a couple of high profile satellite mission failures – a real possibility in the dangerous environment of space operations – could devastate America's weather-prediction capabilities.
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A system of showers stretching from the Texas and western Oklahoma north to Nebraska would bring flooding risks on Thursday, said meteorologist Mark Chenard of the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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The storm left a miles-long swath of destruction through Dallas, hitting near the Love Field airport in the city's north, the National Weather Service's (NWS) Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland said early on Monday.
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Rothleitner and his colleagues are involved in an EU-funded project called PROSNOW, which aims to develop fine-grained weather prediction systems that more accurately forecast snowfall and determine when snowmaking machines really need to be activated.
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The central Frederick installation in the second room of the two-room show combines a video of a bubbling stream projected through the large brass and marble microscopes of Graves's Weather Prediction Instruments for Meteorologists (1962–99).
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More heavy downpours were forecast through Wednesday night over much of Oklahoma and Arkansas, with between 1 and 3 inches (2.5-7.6 cm) expected, said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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Up to 4 inches (10 cm) of rain is expected to fall from late Tuesday through Friday in the Sierra foothills, said Patrick Burke, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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A cold front was expected to move through the Northeast on Wednesday, sprinkling some light snow in New England, while rain is expected farther west, NPR reported, citing the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center forecaster David Roth.
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"There's a lot of ways to look at that," Jon Porter, vice president of Innovation and Development at AccuWeather told me, before launching into a canned response on topics ranging from information availability to proprietary weather prediction technology.
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This information should prove extremely valuable, as it will allow for much improved weather prediction, especially in areas like the tropics where there are fewer stations and weather balloons (yes, they use them) from which to collect data.
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The huge blob of warm air is likely to blanket the region, home to a third of the U.S. population, through Sunday with little overnight relief, said meteorologist David Roth of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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In addition to aiding forecasters and other decision-makers in moments of crisis, both vertical profiling sites and standard mesonet towers will supply data to longer-term forecasting models that fall under the canopy of Numerical Weather Prediction.
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Bridenstine explained that he had made the speech to advocate for federal funds to go to weather prediction modeling instead of climate change research, citing an incident in which a tornado hit an Oklahoma school, killing 51 people.
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"It's bringing a lot of rain, we have flash flood watches and warnings throughout the East coast, but basically, this is petering out," said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the NWS Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Get more weather stories from around the world >>> "This is a rather significant winter storm for northwestern Texas, with 4 to 8 inches of snow likely through Wednesday evening," according to the weather service's Weather Prediction Center (WPC).
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The widespread weather system piled as much as 6 inches (15 cm) of snow across the Washington area before turning to sleet, said meteorologist Bryan Jackson of the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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At weather-prediction centers around the world, Bjerknes's equations have been tweaked and Richardson's methods refined (the chess squares can now be as small as a couple of kilometres across), but the fundamental ideas are essentially the same.
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According to a spokesperson for NOAA, the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, would take over forecast duties and has already been testing its systems by issuing some of the forecast updates related to Hurricanes Katia and Jose.
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Elsewhere, the city of Sumter, South Carolina, received 7 inches (18 cm) of snow and the community of Ellabell in eastern Georgia had 6 inches (15 cm) of snow, said meteorologist Patrick Burke of the federal Weather Prediction Center.
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According to the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, another 3 to 6 inches of rain may fall across southeast Texas before the storm system moves far enough to the east to allow the precipitation to taper off.
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By Saturday evening, the storm had dumped 5 inches (13 cm) of snow on Hendersonville, a North Carolina city about 100 miles (160 km) west of Charlotte, meteorologist Zack Taylor of the federal Weather Prediction Center said by phone.
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In one of wettest spots near Santa Barbara, over 10 inches (25 cm) of rain fell on Friday with several other stations in Southern California reporting at least 9 inches (23 cm), said meteorologist Patrick Burke of the Weather Prediction Center.
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Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico feeding into the storms will fuel a large stripe of heavy rains, stretching from the lower Mississippi Valley, across the Tennessee Valley, southern Appalachians and southern Mid-Atlantic, according to the Weather Prediction Center.
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Forecasters at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland said temperatures are expected to slowly drop from a high of 96 degrees Fahrenheit (35.6°C) Sunday to a high of 83 degrees Fahrenheit (28.3°C) by Tuesday.
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Up to four inches of rain is expected to fall from late on Tuesday through Friday in the Sierra foothills, the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said, including in Paradise, which was all but obliterated by the Camp Fire.
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"Plan for plenty of extra time," said Brian Hurley, a forecaster at the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md. The Twin Cities saw a new daily snowfall record set on Wednesday, with more than nine inches at the Minneapolis-St.
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The rockets and satellites launched during the Cold War helped provide a major breakthrough in weather prediction: the first images sent from the edge of space showed Earth wrapped in bands and whirls and vortices that stretched thousands of miles.
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"I think at the worst what it will do is just prolong the gradual receding of the water levels across the various river basins throughout the Midwest," Orrison said by phone from the service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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"That one still looks like it's going to be on target for at least moderate coastal flooding, which means we're going to see some problems in Boston," said Jim Hayes, a meteorologist with the agency's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Southern Texas was hammered by thunderstorms and showers over the weekend, and the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said the Upper Texas Coast and the Gulf Coast of western Louisiana has had "300-600% of normal rainfall" for this time of year.
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In one of the wettest spots near Santa Barbara, over 10 inches (25 cm) of rain fell on Friday, with several other stations in Southern California reporting at least 9 inches (23 cm), said meteorologist Patrick Burke of the Weather Prediction Center.
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Canada is an ideal candidate for this approach to weather prediction because First Nations peoples in Canada have a long history of watching for signs in nature to predict the weather, from the migration of birds to the position of the moon.
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Coastal parts of California could receive up to 2 inches (5 cm) of rain on Wednesday, which is significantly lighter than the 5 inches seen during periods of heavy rain in the past week, said Bruce Sullivan of the Weather Prediction Center.
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About a foot (30 cm) of rain will drop on the city and many parts of the coast of the Carolinas on Thursday and Friday, said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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About a foot of rain will drop on flood-prone Charleston, South Carolina, and many parts of the coasts of the Carolinas on Thursday and Friday, said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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About a foot (30 cm) of rain will drop on flood-prone Charleston and many parts of the coasts of the Carolinas on Thursday and Friday, said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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About a foot (30 cm) of rain will drop on flood-prone Charleston and many parts of the coasts of the Carolinas on Thursday and Friday, said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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The storm, which was slowly moving northeast through the eastern Texas region, was expected to bring rainfall of five to 10 inches through Friday, and could deliver 103 to 25 inches to some places, according to the Weather Prediction Center on Wednesday afternoon.
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Heavier snow totals were expected in upstate New York, Pennsylvania, northwestern New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, southern Vermont, southern New Hampshire and Maine, with some areas already receiving a foot of snow, said meteorologist Bob Oravec of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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High flood waters have already returned in the western Dakotas, northwest Nebraska and central and eastern Montana, along smaller rivers that feed into the Missouri, David Roth, a meteorologist with the NWS's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said on Monday.
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Some one to two inches of rain moving into the central and western parts of the state in a next day or two will prolong the flooding, said meteorologist Rich Otto of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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About a foot of rain will drop on flood-prone Charleston, S.C. and many parts of the coasts of the Carolinas on Thursday and Friday, said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Temperatures fell to single-digits Fahrenheit (about -20 C) from New York City to Boston and through northern New England and froze melting snow late on Sunday and early Monday, said Marc Chenard at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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It's conceivable that China, not the U.S., will be the next country to land a human on the Moon, while also rivaling the U.S. and the E.U. in weather prediction in as little as a decade from now — a field with many military applications.
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Swaths of rivers near the Atlantic coast will not crest for days to come, such as the lower Cape Fear River near Wilmington, N.C., one of the hardest hit communities, said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the NWS's Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland.
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Up to 4 inches (10 cm) of rain drenched New York's eastern Long Island suburbs, while the widespread storm dumped as much as 8 inches (803 cm) of wetness on Port Arthur, Texas, said meteorologist David Roth of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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"The reason for the snow amounts being heavier than we usually see is that the upper low (pressure system) really persisted down there, that has allowed colder air to remain locked in place," said Andrew Orrison of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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Over the past week, the storms brought 10 to 15 inches (25 to 38 cm) of rain and snow to the Sierra Nevada mountains in California and lesser amounts of precipitation in western Nevada, meteorologist Bob Oravec of the Weather Prediction Center said by phone.
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"For the first time in history, a private company is offering a full-blown operational numerical weather prediction model for an entire country, working continuously and providing high-resolution forecasts for up to 48 hours ahead," said ClimaCell CEO and co-founder Shimon Elkabetz.
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The latest: A potentially significant flash flood event along the upper Texas coast and Houston may set up overnight, the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center tweeted just before 11pm ET. Schools across the region canceled Wednesday classes as a precaution, the Houston Chronicle reports.
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But the use of wind chill as a way to measure cold is problematic — especially in places like Mount Washington, which is known for its extreme environment, said Greg Carbin, chief of the forecast operations branch for the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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Florida, Alabama and Mississippi declared states of emergency on Saturday as the storm threatened up to 213 inches of rain over the Memorial Day weekend and tidal surges and damaging winds, according to Patrick Burke of the weather service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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The storm was about 1,390 miles southeast of the Hawaiian islands, and it was uncertain if it would hit or just brush by the southern edge of the Big Island by Wednesday, said a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland.
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There's also a risk of flash flooding in parts of Texas and central Alabama on Tuesday, according to the Weather Prediction Center in Silver Spring, Md. Tuesday isn't the first time severe weather has struck on Super Tuesday — the biggest day on the quadrennial primary calendar.
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Through Monday and into Tuesday, the storm could bring four to eight inches of snow to parts of New England as well as freezing rain to areas of Vermont, New Hampshire, Eastern New York and Western Massachusetts, Andrew Orrison, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center, said.
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More than 113 million Americans are under heat warnings or advisories stretching from the Mississippi Valley, up to Philadelphia, Chicago and bending over to New York, Boston, Baltimore and Washington D.C., said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the NWS Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi declared states of emergency on Saturday as the storm threatened up to 133 inches of rain over the Memorial Day weekend and tidal surges and damaging winds, according to Patrick Burke of the weather service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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Florida, Alabama and Mississippi declared states of emergency on Saturday as the storm threatened up to 240 inches of rain over the Memorial Day weekend, as well as tidal surges and damaging winds, according to Patrick Burke of the weather service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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The latest forecast from the U.S. government-run Weather Prediction Center calls for as much as 4 inches (102 mm) to accumulate through this Saturday in the same areas, which if realized, could raise some serious concerns for the region where things had been going relatively well (reut.rs/2p5ngho).
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Aiming to reduce errors like the one it made in 2012, when it wrongly forecast the track of Hurricane Sandy into the New York area, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday introduced a major upgrade to the software at the heart of its weather prediction capability.
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Dan Petersen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center, told us on Saturday that, in terms of actual mercury readings, two towns in Minnesota — Cotton and the interestingly named Embarrass — had had readings of minus 39 degrees; Mount Washington's lowest temperature had been minus 36.
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But the storm system was expected to cause more chaos as it swept east from Monday afternoon into Tuesday, continuing to bring a variety of severe winter weather to Colorado, the Midwest and up through Boston, said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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The flurry of hundreds of tornadoes that has recently struck the Midwest was caused by the interaction of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, a strong jet stream and a weather front that has been locked in place, said Alex Lamers, a meteorologist with the federal Weather Prediction Center.
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But as of Sunday night, only La Guardia was reporting any delays because of the weather, according to the F.A.A. Earlier Sunday, Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md., said the storm would bring with it wet, heavy snow that could cause power outages.
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If you live in or around Washington, Baltimore or Philadelphia, you could see as much as a foot of snow on Monday and Tuesday, said Andrew Orrison, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md. A winter storm watch has been issued for those areas.
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CCAR-funded projects measure, observe, and model what's happening in Canada's huge Arctic region, research that reflects important international environmental issues such as how the sea ice and snow cover is changing, weather prediction and climate projection; changes to land, water, and climate; and the temperature of the atmosphere in the high Arctic.
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Over the past year, with the help of climate experts and an online weather prediction tool, Tigana and other local farmers have helped identify villages further north - such as Bankass and Koro - that are experiencing the kind of climate conditions Kolondialan could face in 30 years' time, mainly higher temperatures and less rain.
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Mr. Lloyd's father retired as a computer information specialist in the Numerical Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Camp Springs, Md. Mr. Harding, 32, is the director of early-childhood curriculum and assessment and is a prekindergarten teacher at Van Ness Elementary, a public school in Washington.
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As of late morning, the storm was dumping between one-half and three-quarters of an inch (1.3 to 1.9 cm) of rain per hour in parts of California and was set to continue for several hours, according to meteorologist Kenny James of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.
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"Starting Monday we're going to see a gradual cool down, as we shave just a few degrees off each day until about midweek it gets to something like normal, in the mid-22s (Fahrenheit) inland and 2800s at the coast," said Jim Hayes of the NWS Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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There are two kinds of forecasting when it comes to weather — short-term weather prediction, like how much it will rain over Banner Elk on Tuesday, and long-term climatology, like what each week will look like over winter in The High Country, said Gary Lackmann, an atmospheric scientist at North Carolina State University.
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"Geographically speaking, I'd say about half of the lower 48 states are under some sort of weather alert," said Alex Lamers, a meteorologist with Weather Prediction Center, in College Park, Md. Meanwhile, much of the East Coast is expected to have unusually warm weather this weekend, with temperatures of up to 30 degrees above average.
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A future goal of these small satellites is to use them in small groups to get higher quality weather prediction information and at the same cost as current weather satellites, Brown tells CNBC Make It. "This will be transformative for weather forecasting and monitoring these storms when they are out in the ocean, away from our land based radars," he says.
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The National Weather Service (NWS) said that while winds have weakened on Sunday and most of the rain and snow has moved offshore, flooding and extreme high tides could still affect the coastal areas from Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Long Island, N.Y. "We're definitely not out of the woods yet," said meteorologist David Roth at the weather service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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The National Weather Service (NWS) said that while winds have weakened on Sunday and most of the rain and snow has moved offshore, flooding and extreme high tides could still affect the coastal areas from Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Long Island, N.Y. "We're definitely not out of the woods yet," said meteorologist David Roth at the weather service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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The system is expected to move across the Great Lakes and arrive in New England by Tuesday morning, bringing the possibility of severe ice storms, said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md. Several airlines issued travel notices for the upper Midwest as a result of the weather, including United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, offering people who are traveling just ahead of the new year the chance to change tickets without being charged a fee.
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