ElI5 How do meteorologist know that this tropical wave carries a 10% chance of forming. Why not 5% or 15%?

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ElI5 How do meteorologist know that this tropical wave carries a 10% chance of forming. Why not 5% or 15%?

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Computers models run thousands of simulations of near future weather and the data from those simulations determine the probability of any specific weather event.

Wikipedia has a bit more details https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_weather_prediction

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