We’re looking at a pretty active week in New England, and it ended with a bit of inclement weather last week as well.
Actuals: Thursday, High 50, Low 25
Friday
Grade: B-D
Modesto gives us all problems
There were two problems with the verification for Modesto. First, the airport on the south end of town didn’t properly maintain their records. Second, if they had, I’m not sure we would have been terribly successful. Temperatures generally ran much cooler than we had expected in the overnight hours. Maybe they would have been
Actuals: Wednesday
Thursday – .08 inches of rain, High 66, Low 41
Grade, C-D
West Virginia Warm up
See, we’re definitely back! Now we even have the alliterative verification titles and everything. This is certainly a fitting one for Morgantown, where temperatures reached a balmy 65 degrees yesterday, and without any of the rain that had been a potential. The springtime warmth comforted The Weather Channel, especially, as they claimed victory.
Actuals: Wednesday – High 60, Low 23
Thursday – High 65, low 39
Grade: B-C
The Hopeless Optimist
I thought we had turned a corner. On the winter, if there is a shadow of a doubt, leave precipitation in the forecast. On the summer, it’s easier to dodge rain drops even if it looks like storms are looming on a given day. Alas, I thought Lafayette was in the clear over this weekend with a short wave trough approaching. I was the only one who felt that way, but I felt really good about it. Of course, you know how this ends. It ends with Lafayette wet. Victoria-Weather could have secured victory if those .06 inches of rain hadn’t fallen, but instead, it was The Weather Channel and WeatherNation who split honors.
Actuals: Saturday, High 53, low 19
Sunday – .06 inches of rain, High 53, low 38
Grade: B-C
Now you can check on us too!
Up until now, we’ve had to rely on our RSS feed to put together out verifications, but the first post back was
Actuals: Monday, the 11th, High 72, Low 54
Tuesday the 12th, High 64, Low 39
Grade: B-C
Sunny Sevens
The forecast for Oshkosh was easy enough, it was dry both days with not a lot of expected variance. However, Tuesday warmed up exactly 7 degrees for both the low AND high temps, slightly more than most were expecting. Well, the Weather Channel expected it at least, securing a fairly comfortable victory.
Monday: High 39, Low 19.
Tuesday: High 46, Low 26.
Forecast Grade: A-C
Brighter Days
In our last forecast before “The Incident” we looked at Riverside, California, which was in the midst of a string of uncharacteristically rainy days as we approached the weekend. Ah, but what an allegory for our site, no? The good news was, things were starting to warm up as the next week began even if there was a little bit of light rain in the area. And now, with the website back up and running, we can see brighter days on the horizon as well! That said, the Weather Service had the top forecast for the day. Oh well.
Monday, March 11th, Rain reported, not measured High 64, Low 41
Grade: B-C
We can still verify!
Thanks to our RSS feed, which apparently doesn’t get purged just because the content of the entire website is obliterated, we still know the contents of our post
Actuals: Thursday, March 7th, High 38, Low 12
Friday – .07 inches of precipitation, reported as snow, High 41, Low 19
Grade: C- D