The Scottish government-owned company will use a forecasting tool provided by the Met Office to better predict weather conditions at Inverness, Stornoway, Wick John O'Groats, Kirkwall and Sumburgh.
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At the time, new numerical weather models helped forecasters predict extreme weather events two to four days out, said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
If you used this scheme to predict the weather it would be reasonably accurate.
Sophisticated programs attempt to predict how weather patterns and temperatures will change due to fossil fuels evaporating into the atmosphere.
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Some research that has helped us to predict extreme weather events.
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For Labour, shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh said it was "astonishing" the government had "not put in place the advanced computing system to predict severe weather".
We tease meteorologists about being wrong when they can't predict the weather to the exact detail, but their job is much harder than most people understand.
We predict the weather by putting all the observations we have on winds, temperatures, pressures and other variables into a mathematical model that estimates how these systems will interact.
So while ENIAC's creators wanted to use their new computer to help predict the weather or the stock market, it wound up helping America's fledgling space program get off the ground.
Using icons that predict wet weather more often than it occurs has been standard practice in meteorology, said Bruce Rose, a scientific consultant to the Weather Channel and its former principal scientist.
The first is trying to predict the weather.
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Lewis Fry Richardson, an English meteorologist and mathematician, was ridiculed for his suggestion in 1922 that it might be possible to predict the weather using an army of thousands of mathematicians, sitting at desks in a vast arena and passing slips of paper to each other.
Forecasters predict that dry weather and fire danger in the region could continue into the Spring.
We need to build our communities' capacities to predict and respond to weather emergencies and to rebuild after they are over.
Local and regional weather patterns are more difficult to predict, as anyone who has relied on a five-day weather forecast can understand.
Additionally, with the use of the barometric measurement, it can predict the onset of foul weather (rain generally).
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Some weather models can predict the MJO three weeks ahead, he said, but others struggle to predict it a week ahead.
Looking forward, growth in foreign business elements could also predict which tech shops will weather a possible a recession, Bartels said.
National Weather Service forecasters predict a 90 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms Monday and Monday night in the mountain region.
Weather is inherently uncontrollable and difficult to predict, notes Dirnagl, but it is part and parcel of operating in the air emergency transport business.
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Just as weather forecasters chart storms off Africa to predict which ones could become hurricanes, he hopes to create a database of animal viruses that have the potential to cross into the human population over the next few decades.
When a weather crisis hits New York, you never can predict just how the Big Apple or its millions of residents are going to react.
I'm one of a number of researchers at NOAA who are working on ways to combine all of the environmental, radar and other weather data into a computer model that will attempt to predict when the tornado will develop and how strong it will be as much as an hour in advance.
Finally, the Mirror and Star both predict a protracted heatwave from next weekend while the Express says abnormally mild weather has already resulted in an exceptionally early pollen season.
Until recently, for a chance of rain of 30%, the Weather Channel's weather.com had shown icons of rain, which for users who don't look at percentages will look like a prediction of wet weather even though the firm's computer models predict that seven out of 10 times on similar days, there will be no rain.
The weather department will release its second forecast in June, when it will predict region-wise rainfall expectations, Mr. Rathore said.
By studying weather forecasts, the Southern African Malaria Control programme has been able to predict epidemics, with reasonable accuracy, up to six weeks in advance.
Weather is simply too large a chaotic system for us to be able to predict it successfully.
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Bob Case, a retired NOAA meteorologist and the Boston-based forecaster who coined the phrase "the perfect storm, " said the weather models did a "fantastic job" in helping him and other forecasters predict the storm.
Its data may allow scientists to better understand and predict how various surface features absorb and reflect solar radiation, which influence both short-term weather patterns and longer-term climate trends.
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