Eli5: How do meteorologists predict the amount of snow/rain that will fall?

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Watching the weather report this morning and they said there will likely be 15cm of new snow. How do they work this out?

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There is a lot of historical data that is used to make a model of weather systems on a computer. The more data, the more accurate the prediction. However there is a practical limit of about 10 days out where the error probability is really high and its accuracy falls sharply.

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