On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 10:07:18 PM UTC+1, Julian Mayes wrote:
Graham wrote: Surely there must be an automated way of feeding reality back into the forecast to make it more reasonable.

Yes there is - that's how model output statistics are enhanced by MeteoGroup and probably many other forecasting centres worldwide (by obs, sat and radar imagery). It won't keep pace with rapid changes though, or all showers, obviously.

Julian

Thanks Julian,

Graham