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Old September 16th 06, 12:40 AM posted to sci.geo.meteorology,alt.global-warming
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Default Weather forecasters compared (WSJ article)

The article strikes me as another vainglorious attempt by AccuWx to wrest
routine forecasting responsibility away from the NWS.

Regardless of intent, a binary verification scheme for temp and
precipitation is meaningless as a measure of forecast skill.

More better would be total absolute temp and quantitative precipitation
errors as well as on-set and duration of precipatation.