Why are weather forecasts sometimes so different from each other? Don’t they all use the same data and science?

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I’m talking about information displayed on different weather websites. One will say that there’s a very high chance of rain in a place at a certain hour, for multiple hours, and another will say that there will be just some light rain in the first hour, then it will be dry/sunny.

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When you get into the details of it, it’s an incredibly complex and difficult job. Weather is chaotic, everything affects everything else, and we have a series of best guesses based on how well we can predict the future based on past patterns in a world which is heating up and changing (weakening our predictive power).

Anything that involves predicting the future is risky, you’ll note that all traders get the same information about the stock market yet make different investment decisions, same with weather.

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