Why Weather Forecasts Suck

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    There are two types of rain, and one of them is almost impossible to forecast.
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  • @markholm7050
    @markholm7050 Год назад +673

    I’m 67 years old and live in the eastern half of the United States. Weather forecasts here have improved a lot since I was a child. Up to five day forecasts are usually accurate as to general conditions. Hazardous weather is usually forecast several hours, up to a few days in advance. Hurricane forecasts are much better than they were. Even tornado producing storms are usually forecast at least a fews hours in advance. Tornados themselves remain dangerously unpredictable, but when they form, we get rapid and accurate warnings. I think the U.S. Weather Service is doing a great job.

    • @Psychol-Snooper
      @Psychol-Snooper Год назад +17

      When I was a kid the weather forecast was a joke, but now I check the five day forecast a lot and it has the temperatures within a couple degrees a week in advance 90+ percent of the time. Rain prediction is still spotty. Especially in the mountains where I live.

    • @CharChar2121
      @CharChar2121 Год назад +9

      They're the best. AccuWeather is evil. I hate them.

    • @Volodimar
      @Volodimar Год назад +3

      @@CharChar2121 i usually rely on local airport weather forecast, global forecasts apps suck 🙄

    • @HopeRock425
      @HopeRock425 Год назад +3

      Here in Ireland the weather forecast sucks

    • @Psychol-Snooper
      @Psychol-Snooper Год назад +8

      @@Volodimar Whatever the Windows desktop app is running is surprisingly accurate. It's "rain to stop" and "rain to start" messages as well as "rain" (replace rain with snow too) are exceptionally accurate even in a valley between two mountains.
      I learned that to ignore that is to walk home soaked.

  • @wellurban
    @wellurban Год назад +333

    That’s one of the reasons why forecasts traditionally used phrases like “scattered rain” or “isolated showers”. Sometimes we know that rain will occur for some places in a region but won’t know where exactly, due to the inherently chaotic nature of convection, so forecasts were worded to convey that uncertainty. Forecast technology has advanced tremendously in the last few decades, but the fine details might remain inherently unpredictable due to sensitive dependence on initial conditions. It’s the difference between knowing that heating up a pot of water will cause a certain amount of bubbling, and trying to predict exactly when and where each bubble will form.

    • @robupsidedown
      @robupsidedown Год назад +12

      and you only have 4 data points in your pot.

  • @TheHungarianMan
    @TheHungarianMan Год назад +472

    This is good timing as in Hungary the Government fired the heads of the National Weather Forecast Agency, because they "predicted the weather wrong" during our national holiday, so they had to cancel the event.
    The ironic thing in it, that it was the Government who decided to cancel the event, not the Weather Service.
    It must be a hard job, and I really felt bad for the Weathermans.

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen Год назад +55

      That reminds me of Caligula declaring war on the sea 😐

    • @deXXXXter2
      @deXXXXter2 Год назад +1

      Hugary's government is more idiotic then Polish one, and that is really an achivement.

    • @gabett_
      @gabett_ Год назад +3

      This is blatant OMSZ propaganda /s

    • @bianka94825
      @bianka94825 Год назад +10

      Was looking for this comment😀

    • @runakovacs4759
      @runakovacs4759 Год назад +5

      Bojler eladó

  • @MrBahafire
    @MrBahafire Год назад +42

    I work in climatology of extreme weather events and how I like to put it is:
    Imagine a saucepan filled with boiling water above a source of heat, if you move the saucepan around, you can see the areas where the bubbles form change and that is what climatologist are doing, now try and predict where every little bubble explodes on the surface of the water, it’s what meteorologist are doing with convective events and it’s why it’s so hard to be accurate !

  • @MateFilep
    @MateFilep Год назад +40

    Perfect timing. The head of Meteorological Service was fired after wrong forecast for national holiday in Hungary.

  • @IapetusStag
    @IapetusStag Год назад +283

    But as what I heard from some scientists:
    It's easier to predict the overall weather of planet Jupiter than the local weather on our own planet Earth. Nature and how we are able to interpret things can be quite odd.

    • @Sivah_Akash
      @Sivah_Akash Год назад +34

      Maybe because we are tracking planetary scale weather in Jupiter (or atleast on a larger scale)? Also maybe the fact that Jupiter is mostly gases whereas Earth's Atmosphere has to experience the effects of both Water and Land.

    • @IapetusStag
      @IapetusStag Год назад +38

      @@Sivah_Akash Jupiter's weather is very stable compared to Earth. Storm patterns last for decades if not centuries.

    • @archmad
      @archmad Год назад +5

      well we already predicted it's going to submerge islands in 20 years last 30 years

    • @secretunknown2782
      @secretunknown2782 Год назад +16

      @@archmad that’s not weather that’s climate

    • @Sivah_Akash
      @Sivah_Akash Год назад +1

      @@archmad , was it a consensus or just a few sources saying that?

  • @Ascertivus
    @Ascertivus Год назад +219

    This video was uploaded literally a few minutes after I was explaining rain and barometric pressure to my mother-what a coincidence!

    • @CreativitySkys
      @CreativitySkys Год назад +1

      XD

    • @RealRomplayer
      @RealRomplayer Год назад +7

      Situations like this normally trigger people to claim "My phone is secretly listening to me!"
      Remember, people: Coincidences just happen.

    • @Ascertivus
      @Ascertivus Год назад +8

      @@RealRomplayer Yeah, I’ve heard people say that. You’re right. Entropy just leads to fun surprises once in awhile.

    • @witness1013
      @witness1013 Год назад +5

      Or was it ?

    • @Ascertivus
      @Ascertivus Год назад +5

      @@witness1013 _Vsauce music plays_

  • @DeannaGilbert616
    @DeannaGilbert616 Год назад +241

    As a professional weather forecaster, I always shake my head when I’m told how weather forecasts “suck” considering, with the exception of prediction of astronomical objects, weather forecasts are the most successful forms of predicting humans do.
    There are several things in this video that are just plain wrong though, and make it seem like convection is completely a mystery. It’s not. We might not know quantities to super precision but we can predict whether we’re getting just showers or severe thunderstorms. And convection usually is LARGER than the resolution of radar beams, not smaller. We know the wind speeds and can watch how fast showers or storms are moving. This is how the Storm Prediction Center can actually do Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and Tornado Warnings, and give estimates of when the storm will arrive in different locations.
    Seriously usually videos on this channel are good, but as a lesson in meteorology, this one is not.

    • @CapSora
      @CapSora Год назад +6

      I'd love to hear more about this; what's the limiting component to weather predictions then? The observations, the chaotic nature of weather, or something else?
      Also, what's the cause of the discrepancy between humans generally considering weather forecasts to be poor? Is it just because we experience weather in a local scale, whereas weather forecasts are accurate on a larger scale?

    • @DeannaGilbert616
      @DeannaGilbert616 Год назад +56

      @@CapSora The big limiting component is chaos. But there have also been improvements due to faster computers (which allow for smaller scales to be modelled directly) and higher resolution of satellite photos, among other things.
      As for the discrepancy with the impression of accuracy, it really comes down to confirmation bias. You care much more when you make a decision based on the forecast and the forecast is wrong, than when you make it and the forecast is right. And so you'll remember when it's wrong more often.
      Also, you more often 'lose' more when it's wrong, and humans value loss more than gain.
      But also, it depends on what being "wrong" actually is. For instance, if the probability of precipitation is 30%, and the forecasted amount is 0.25" and it rains...but it rains 0.30" instead....was the forecast "wrong" Technically, sure. But most people wouldn't care about a difference of only 0.05" of rain...and probably wouldn't even be able to tell the difference.
      If I forecast sun with a high of 72, and it's 75...does anyone care? But what if I forecast rain, with a low of 34...but instead that low is 32...you're probably seeing snow instead of rain, even though my temperature forecast is actually closer.
      And you'll probably wonder what was wrong with the forecaster that they couldn't forecast snow.

    • @CapSora
      @CapSora Год назад +15

      @@DeannaGilbert616 that's a great explanation, thank you!

    • @marcosmith6613
      @marcosmith6613 Год назад +8

      Thank you. I'm in the UK and our weather forecasts have improved a lot over the past 40 years. Come on @minuteearth a response is needed here 🤔

    • @Reellron
      @Reellron Год назад +16

      Or perhaps all their videos are greatly flawed and you just know enough about this subject to know that this particular one is greatly flawed.

  • @ionic7777
    @ionic7777 Год назад +58

    I like how cute the art style is in this one! The little faces on the cold/warm masses of air makes it all the more fun to watch and learn!

    • @sonicfan82
      @sonicfan82 8 месяцев назад

      Yeah, it’s rather cute

  • @Ilander86
    @Ilander86 Год назад +9

    Wow, I recognized Valencia's city map because of the Jardin del Turia. Neat!

  • @briangarrow448
    @briangarrow448 Год назад +74

    I lived next to the largest temperate rain forest in North America. When people would ask me about our weather conditions, I would reply back, “We have two seasons. Warm and wet , then cold and wet.”

    • @murph_mustela
      @murph_mustela Год назад +2

      Malaysia is like that too. And I love it!

    • @murph_mustela
      @murph_mustela Год назад +2

      In fact, my grandmother's apartment was literally right next to a rainforest. From the carpark we could see and hear wild roosters, pythons, monkeys, and red dragonflies.

    • @avirajsinghmehta1857
      @avirajsinghmehta1857 Год назад +1

      That is nothing Mumbai has only 2 settings Warm and dry, warm and wet

    • @robertbackhaus8911
      @robertbackhaus8911 Год назад +2

      "Rain in the wet, showers in the dry."
      But when it comes to forecasts, they are pretty much always right. You know you'll get it if they forecast rain, and there are always showers in the area if they forecast that. The showers might miss you on any one day, but that doesn't mean the forecast is wrong.

  • @Quietloud
    @Quietloud Год назад +4

    At 2:15, there's a map of Valencia in the background!

  • @limiv5272
    @limiv5272 Год назад +6

    I've noticed a huge improvement in weather forecast accuracy over the last decade, so clearly we're understanding things better than before or at least we have better data. Unfortunately, in my region, weather forecasts aren't necessary 8 months of the year - anyone can predict that "Today will be scorchingly hot and unbearably humid"

    • @iprobablyforgotsomething
      @iprobablyforgotsomething Год назад +2

      Similarly, in my neck of the woods, in all seasons excluding summer (which we only have now thanks to global warming) we can be sure that at some point during the day, it will rain. The humidity is never really going away. And there's a 3/4 chance of total cloud cover for at least half the day.
      .
      After that, the questions are of how many thunderstorms will hit at once (Spring), how large the inevitable hail will be before it turns to slush (Winter), and how big and where-at the pileup(s) will be from the many out-of-towners and newbies to the state that will crash because they're not used to driving in the rain of our ever-wet conditions. Those are the real variables the news tries to report accurately each season.

    • @limiv5272
      @limiv5272 Год назад

      @@iprobablyforgotsomething Rain at summer? Snow? I'm so jealous right now, I haven't seen a drop of rain in several months, and I've only ever seen snow falling once in my life

  • @SiberianThunderT
    @SiberianThunderT Год назад +6

    Proper title: Why Rain Forecasts Kinda Suck
    As some other commenters have mentioned, weather forecasts have actually improved leaps and bounds over the past few decades, particularly with longer-range forecasts. And even with rain, being confident with 40% of it and hit-or-miss with the other 60% is still gonna net you about 70% accuracy overall. That doesn't suck. People just complain about weather (i.e. rain) forecasts the most because it sucks when your plans get rained out. But the old adage/joke that "weather forecasts suck" is really rather outdated.

  •  Год назад +9

    2:08 Isn't this Valencia, Spain?

  • @MagnakayViolet
    @MagnakayViolet Год назад +6

    Convective rain can be hilariously weird causing rain to occur within feet or a few miles of your location and your house stays dry.

  • @AC25Football
    @AC25Football Год назад +2

    In the city I live now, Quito, we had an everlasting changing weather all year long, sun in the morning, rain at the afternoon, and then sun again.

  • @iseriver3982
    @iseriver3982 Год назад +4

    This year in particular feels like the weather forecasts have been terrible.
    Different apps saying completely different things, and weather predictions changing 3 times within 3 hours.
    But this year has also seen some pretty exceptional weather for the UK. First ever time the country broke 40°C, and there's a drought.
    Can't wait to see what's going to happen to us during the winter.

  • @Zarkonem
    @Zarkonem Год назад +3

    I remember seeing a movie about a weatherman where someone brought this up and the answer they got sums it up pretty good IMO. "It's wind! It blows around all over the damn place!"

  • @juliav.mcclelland2415
    @juliav.mcclelland2415 Год назад +5

    So what makes the shortlived convective rain more common in certain areas? In Pittsburgh, it's 100% true that rain or snow or clear skies can stop after only 5 minutes.

  • @banescar
    @banescar Год назад +4

    Last week in Austria, five people died because they got in a storm. Meteorologists said, they didn't know the storm was coming in this direction, because it travelled so fast (~ 200 km/h). It came and went within 15 minutes.

  • @Primalxbeast
    @Primalxbeast Год назад +4

    They have absolutely no clue when and where it's going to rain in Florida. We have the eastern seabreeze meeting the western seabreaze and it storms in some spots and is completely blue skies in others and blue skies during storms in other areas. Our forecast is basically, it might rain at some point in time. I've seen lots of storm clouds today and zero rain. Right now I'm under clear skies with lots of lightning in the area.

  • @jocirayne7316
    @jocirayne7316 Год назад +1

    In the southeast, it’s very humid during the summer, so random rainstorms happen a lot

  • @DampWetstew
    @DampWetstew Год назад +1

    I always used the term 'Popcorn Showers' for Convective Rain, there is just so much heat and moisture in the area that little showers pop in and out almost at random~

  • @mookfaru835
    @mookfaru835 Год назад +2

    Yea I was at Las Vegas yesterday and I stormed past the storm, It was pretty cool. It lasted an hour, I saw dust rise from the ground because it was being sucked up. The road had a river running through it and I got scared and drove back against traffic. It was a fun day.

  • @pabs4883
    @pabs4883 Год назад +9

    I see other people already pointed out the map of valencia at 2:08, but what's so cool is that we just had a convective storm here when this was uploaded! Coincidence?

    • @xavieretsalva5106
      @xavieretsalva5106 Год назад +1

      When i saw the map i was like OMG is that Valencia??? :D

  • @neelkanth3002
    @neelkanth3002 Год назад +2

    I am a weather enthusiast and have a small weather channel on twitter. I live in Bengaluru (south india) and more than 90% of the rain we receive (quantitatively) is from monsoon withdrawal phase thuderstorms (convective rain) and i can confirm that even the most brilliant meteorologists, radars etc cannot track these systems. Also it is a pain when people comment "is it going to rain here?" Cuz their movements are erratic as HELL.

  • @Aviator27J
    @Aviator27J Год назад +3

    I work in airline flight planning (including monitoring during the entire flight) so I'm about as close as one can get to meteorology without having a degree in that field. Between my experience and reading the book "The Weather Machine" which explains how we started forecasting weather, I can say that we've come a long way! It's said that we gain about one day of accurate forecast every ten years due to advances in technology (like supercomputing and observational data). Besides, sometimes it's obvious that when the call for rain in Houston (which covers a massive amount of area), there may be showers here but not there at one moment and then other places and then other places, all within the area in the same day.

  • @Cythil
    @Cythil Год назад +14

    That also must depend on where you live. Here it seems that fronts are pretty common and the weather forecast tend to be very accurate. Though it can be a bias from my part.

    • @MerkhVision
      @MerkhVision Год назад

      Where is this “here” u speak of? This is the internet and youtube comments are pretty much anonymous, so how do u expect anyone to know what you’re referring to if u don’t specify?? Lol

    • @Cythil
      @Cythil Год назад

      @@MerkhVision Here as where I am locally in physical space. Not in digital space. ;)

  • @thetommeister4121
    @thetommeister4121 Год назад +4

    0:40 Love the Breath of the Wild Reference!

  • @diegoreig4708
    @diegoreig4708 Год назад

    Thank you for showing the map of Valencia in the radar drawing

  • @MrPinkDino
    @MrPinkDino Год назад +2

    I live in Poland, here we have 3 different air fronts from different sides and it's impossible to predict weather for more than 48 hours in advance

  • @karabaia5417
    @karabaia5417 Год назад +2

    You used Valencia in the map as an example, my city 😊😊, blindblowing moment hahaha

  • @LavenderLushLuxury
    @LavenderLushLuxury Год назад +2

    Another, Nice Earth and Space, Science RUclips, Video..!! 🌧⛈

  • @MerkhVision
    @MerkhVision Год назад

    The art in this episode was really good! I loved the cute and expressive faces on the clouds lol

  • @jamez6398
    @jamez6398 Год назад +5

    I'd imagine in dry, desert regions like California (which is basically in the middle of a permanent drought) don't experience sudden rainfalls during the summer months. Here in the UK, suddenly raining in the middle of a hot summer's day is extremely common and it's so annoying because it's when you're out and about without an umbrella or a coat, and you end up getting soaked. I am worried my suit will get ruined like that one day because I'm poor and so buying new suits for job interviews sucks, and I feel stupid carrying an umbrella around with me when it's sunny outside, when it's really overcast, that's different...

    • @dionjones6300
      @dionjones6300 Год назад +1

      We do have summer rains. They're rarer, especially now. Most people don't live in the desert areas either. The coast is nearly a desert but not quite.

    • @MerkhVision
      @MerkhVision Год назад +1

      California is definitely not mostly a dry desert area lol. (It’s one of the most fertile places in America!) You’re thinking of places like Nevada and parts of Arizona instead.

    • @alexlubbers1589
      @alexlubbers1589 10 месяцев назад

      The desert Southwest of the US is indeed in a megadrought, however we can get downpours that rival the tropics during the summer Monsoon.
      Intense severe thunderstorms fueled by local terrain enhancing the lift and humid air from the tropics can dump an entire year's worth of rain in one area in less than an hour. Along with Lightning, Hurricane Force Winds, and sometimes large hail, these "Microbursts" usually cause intense and devastating Flash Flooding. The ground has no time to absorb the trillions of gallons of water so it all runs downhill.

  • @YoUAreGreatGG
    @YoUAreGreatGG 11 месяцев назад

    Why I don't hear that on TED or something like that, because there are about numbers, that we don't have enough information.
    I liked your explanation - convective rain. Example that I needed, great illustration.
    Thank you a lot, now it's easier for me to understand why forecasting so complicated, because it's complicated, there a lot of factors and those convective rains.
    Good example, along with TED video where they talk about billions (in fact a lot more) of particles in the air.
    I wait for a moment that should happen with me when children at school would know something like that while adults don't. Because I have experienced that with my seniors - revolutionary things in past now are ordinary.

  • @anna.makeup
    @anna.makeup Год назад

    I am 23 and I just found out this information, thank you.

  • @prabhatsourya3883
    @prabhatsourya3883 Год назад

    This is why I always carry an umbrella with me. Too hot climate, I can use it; Rainy climate, I can also use it.

  • @tobi2233
    @tobi2233 Год назад +22

    Weather app: 90% rain morning until afternoon
    Reality: 2 minutes of rain

    • @salepien
      @salepien Год назад +13

      Those numbers can be very confusing. Like you think with higher numbers it’s gonna rain longer. But it just means how likely it is to rain at all and not at your exact location but in your area.

  • @aliceDarts
    @aliceDarts Год назад

    Central canada here (montreal)! The weather forecasters suck at predicting rain or a lot of sun, but they are really good at predicting snow, allergens, sun, and wind.

  • @growtocycle6992
    @growtocycle6992 Год назад +1

    The main problem is, if rain is predicted, you cancel plans. If it doesn't actually rain (or does), you miss out.
    If sun is predicted, and it rains, you will have to cancel, and you miss out. 3/4 times, you miss out instead of 2/4 times

  • @rajisvegankitchen
    @rajisvegankitchen Год назад

    Very nice information 👌 lots of love and support from ur new subscriber ❤️ keep going my friend 👍

  • @genius11433
    @genius11433 Год назад

    So, that's why it rained unpredictably at Splish Splash water park a few weeks ago! The weather forecast called for sunny skies, but during the trip, it rained out of nowhere!

  • @benjaminlamothe2093
    @benjaminlamothe2093 2 месяца назад

    I remember a day in 4th grade when it would rain for 10-20 minutes then be sunny the water would evaporate off the hot asphalt and then it would rain again, I think i counted atleast 8 cycles in just the time I was at school

  • @0ZeldaFreak
    @0ZeldaFreak Год назад +2

    Last week thunderstorms where forecasted here and nothing. Today thunderstorms should come and nothing. Tomorrow thunderstorm should come.
    A few weeks ago rain was forecasted for the day and water came from the sky. The thing was it was like someone was using a spray can for like 5 minutes. The ground didn't got wet and all it done was making the air wet and hotter.
    I'm not upset when the rain comes but not directly over we. Usually when I hear thunderstorms, I expect long lasting rain but that moves. This usually means the sun gets blocked for a while at it helps cooling everything off.
    It shouldn't be that hard to classify the rain better. I only want to know if there is rain coming that does nothing, cools off an area, everything gets flooded or its just annoying, because it only makes wet air.
    But what I also miss is a better warning for lighting. I want a warning when the chance is getting higher, when lightning can strike on me or not. A few years ago, a lightning strike struck a few hundert meters away from me. I was outside and waiting for my bus and I had zero protection. I actually was scared. It was quite a strong one.

    • @DeannaGilbert616
      @DeannaGilbert616 Год назад +1

      If you can hear thunder, you can get hit by lightning. It just so happens that the distance the sound from a lightning strike attenuates to near zero is about the distance it’s possible for a lightning bolt to extend laterally before striking the ground.

  • @szotyaGD
    @szotyaGD Год назад +7

    am i guessing right that this video was made specifically in response to the BS that is going on in hungary and the national weather forecast agency? if yes, thank you so so much for being relevant ~

  • @davidegaruti2582
    @davidegaruti2582 Год назад +2

    question : solar updraft towers could be used to create convective rain ?
    solar updraft towers are a rather intresting structure to me at least : they are basically large flat greenhouse with gaps in their walls and a really tall chimney that can suck up air thanks to the greenhouse effect and the raising of hot air trough the main chimney ,
    they are suggested for energy , wich i think are terrible considering we have PV and just nuclear ,
    however they could cause convective rain since it causes a controlled updraft that may make rains more likely
    while also powering glider type aircrafts

    • @AryaPDipa
      @AryaPDipa Год назад +1

      There's more to convective rain than just "updraft".
      To put it simply, just because an air mass is warm, doesn't mean it'll go up. Sometimes the atmosphere is just that stable that there's not enough lift to push the moist, warm air upwards far enough if at all. Skew-T Log-P chart reading usually explain forms of precipitation (or the lack of it) quite well

  • @edwardskerl5774
    @edwardskerl5774 Год назад +1

    I live i Wichita, KS, and people don't understand that when the meteorologist says "rain in the forecast" it actually pertains to a larger area than their exact location. Henceforth, i hear a lot of comments like "those weather guys are b.s." and "science can't figure anything out". Meanwhile its raining the next suburb over...

  • @brunoaraujoespin
    @brunoaraujoespin Год назад

    2:49 his hat and the ballon look like a AMOGUS ඩඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞ

  • @aniksamiurrahman6365
    @aniksamiurrahman6365 Год назад +1

    When u talked about rain from hard to predict small patches of cloud, the first thing came to my mind is DeepMind's Alphafold. Apparently the breadcrumb trail was well laid. But the sad thing is - their scholarship program doesn't include Asia at all, let alone South Asia, where I'm from!

    • @ChasmChaos
      @ChasmChaos Год назад

      Honestly, DeepMind has gotten where they are by keeping valuable data proprietary. Open source the data and keep your algorithms to yourself, and someone else (with a lot of computing resources) will still come up with a solution that works just as well.

    • @aniksamiurrahman6365
      @aniksamiurrahman6365 Год назад

      @@ChasmChaos Is the algorithm open source? Cos, scientists need to study that.

  • @massimookissed1023
    @massimookissed1023 Год назад +1

    I predicted this 4 minute video would be ¼ ad,
    and I was not wrong.

  • @sijam2m59
    @sijam2m59 Год назад +1

    In Scotland there’s always a chance of rain which really confuses the weather forecast

  • @illogicalferi
    @illogicalferi Год назад +4

    Is it a coincidence that this is coming out after Hungarian meteorological service's head has been kicked out becouse they couldn't tell more accurately than 80% that rain will come or not ?

    • @emb3rke
      @emb3rke Год назад +1

      Exactly the same question came to my mind :)

  • @upseguest
    @upseguest Год назад +3

    old title: Why is predicting rain so hard?

  • @SashAFP
    @SashAFP Год назад

    Fantastic video

  • @SuperHddf
    @SuperHddf Год назад +1

    This was great! Thank you. Should be taught as early as in kindergarden.

  • @maverick9708
    @maverick9708 Год назад

    It's almost like we don't have 80 different ways of compensating for small variables and most of our monitoring equipment isn't covering most of the ground so we have to do a boat load of guesswork on certain types of predictions

  • @MrKapnoc
    @MrKapnoc Год назад

    That city map shown was from my home city, Valencia! 😱 Funny

  • @nuzzy123
    @nuzzy123 Год назад +1

    0:49 :O hyrule!!!

  • @FWtravels
    @FWtravels Год назад

    I was just ranting about this today!

  • @mkks4559
    @mkks4559 Год назад +6

    Fun fact: a type of fungi can control rain by releasing tons of spores into the sky.

  • @MarcelinoDeseo
    @MarcelinoDeseo Год назад +1

    1:10 is this what we also call "scattered rain showers and thunderstorm"?

  • @shekharkushwaha8280
    @shekharkushwaha8280 Год назад

    The drawings are so good..

  • @SSCcglRoadie
    @SSCcglRoadie 7 месяцев назад

    Hii This is from weather forecast India 🇮🇳 we are doing it awsmm

  • @anogaft1543
    @anogaft1543 Год назад +5

    Why wasn't this here when I was in science class last year learning about it. this would have helped me so much! 😭 My science teacher literally just gave me notes to copy and then basically said figure it out 😭

  • @astroch
    @astroch Год назад +1

    Valencia, Spain !

  • @chrissytuggle
    @chrissytuggle Год назад

    These animation are really good

  • @BanzayIkoyama
    @BanzayIkoyama Год назад +2

    So what this tells me is that there is merit in differentiating the forecast accordingly as well. Right now you only ever see more generic stuff like "will it rain". It would probably be useful to somehow differentiate highly predictable weather front based rain from highly unpredictable heat patch based rain. While you can probably deduce that after watching this video yourself as the end user of weather forecasts, it would probably be handy if this was somehow differentiated with much more than chance of rain. If fronts are easy to predict, the confidence of that probability is much higher than that of the quick chance rainfalls and should somehow be marked differently. How exactly, I don't know, but it feels like they should. Or if they already are, it is not in a way that I as a layman have been able to deduct, and probably needs better signaling.

    • @FrederickStark
      @FrederickStark Год назад +1

      The Australian bureau of meteorology now gives forcasts with rain quantity at 10% confidence, 25% confidence 75% confidence and 90% confidence intervals. So it's easier to separate the "chance of showers" and "chance of storms", from the light drizzle and heavy rains.
      So the data is out there! More meteorology departments should do this!

  • @granotaapellido839
    @granotaapellido839 Год назад

    The map in 2:07 is Valencia, Spain?

  • @0cdasinaction180
    @0cdasinaction180 Год назад +2

    Cool video

  • @quercus56
    @quercus56 Год назад

    My experience here, in the UK, is that the forecasts are pretty good and accurate

  • @queeny5613
    @queeny5613 Год назад

    This is great

  • @elkwolf2888
    @elkwolf2888 Год назад

    I don't like heavy sunshine either, so I just always have an umbrella. XD

  • @feykro4152
    @feykro4152 Год назад +2

    They better not be wrong about the week straight of rain starting tomorrow because I am DONE with back to back heatwaves abusing me and my lack of AC because this heat does not belong here! >:c

  • @shoam2103
    @shoam2103 Год назад +2

    So, it's really small localized weather that's hard to predict? Doesn't seem that bad.. Also, what if we track heat spots instead, is it viable?

  • @josem138
    @josem138 Год назад

    2:12 Ey, as a Valencian I could identify our city there. Wasn’t expecting that, I am proud
    What pushed you to chose Valencia?

  • @_Adrian_Llarena_
    @_Adrian_Llarena_ 6 месяцев назад

    It's so frustrating when weather forecast says "it will be rainy tomorrow" but turned out to be fair weather all along, or vice versa. And I don't get why predict the weather for the next five days when they can't even accurately predict the weather for the next 24 hours.

  • @ismaeltercerb2559
    @ismaeltercerb2559 Год назад

    2:08 that's Valencia right there

  • @jespernielsen5731
    @jespernielsen5731 Год назад

    i'm not sure if it can help any but here in Denmark we have an old saying the roughly translates to: if the sky looks like a sheeps belly it wil rain within 3 days. and i can recall a time for thats not been true for the past 10 years

  • @josebrose2735
    @josebrose2735 Год назад +2

    Steve Udelson da Goat

  • @Entropic_Alloy
    @Entropic_Alloy Год назад +1

    Like Double D said, "Summer rains, you can never predict them."

    • @DeannaGilbert616
      @DeannaGilbert616 Год назад

      Funny, I literally just did for a major North American airport…

  • @royrice6656
    @royrice6656 Год назад

    How the weather “forecast” in New Mexico works: Use the hourly updates as the forecast. Works every time!! 🤔👍

  • @FullBodySlam
    @FullBodySlam Год назад +1

    Noone gave minuteearth a memo about orographic rain

  • @deleted-something
    @deleted-something Год назад

    Now everything makes sense

  • @sonicmeerkat
    @sonicmeerkat Год назад +1

    Honestly it doesn't seem that innacurate these days, week long forecasts seem to be pretty damn accurate when I bother checking (mostly to bitch about the Temperature to foreign friends without them saying their place it worse lol)

  • @LauPaSat-pl
    @LauPaSat-pl Год назад

    Please upload on Nebula

  • @thedragonking3665
    @thedragonking3665 Год назад +3

    FirstI love your videos they’re so cool and they inspire me to make videos

  • @randomperson-fz7jz
    @randomperson-fz7jz Год назад

    Before COVID, google forecast were really accurate. But now if it says 90% chance of rain, it never rains and when it says 10%, it always rains.

  • @marcosmatilla4123
    @marcosmatilla4123 Год назад

    2:09 València
    Didn't expect that lol

  • @The_GuyWhoNeverUploadsAnything

    2:54 had to check the captions since I heard: "and war" 😅

  • @irmuusanaa4227
    @irmuusanaa4227 Год назад

    Is this to explain seatle?

  • @nickc3657
    @nickc3657 Год назад +2

    FYI the scholarship link is broken! You embedded the end parenthesis :)

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  Год назад +1

      Fixed! Thanks for the heads-up.

  • @pancakepancake4396
    @pancakepancake4396 Год назад

    nice

  • @shannonmcbee9701
    @shannonmcbee9701 Год назад

    That makes sense

  • @David-ks4pk
    @David-ks4pk Год назад

    Dynamics and chaos 🌀🌀

  • @gnandor
    @gnandor Год назад

    Bojler eladó!

  • @thegamingteen44mc5
    @thegamingteen44mc5 Год назад

    This video is the one on this channel that screams Melbourne the most

  • @MrAqr2598
    @MrAqr2598 Год назад +2

    What a coincidence!!! My neighborhood was literally drenched by a sudden downpour a couple hours ago!!!

  • @r3alsenshi
    @r3alsenshi Год назад

    It'll be awesome when our civilization gets to a point in existence where we can control the weather so we could know exactly what time it will rain and when the sun will shine. That will be mind-blowing to our generation.