{"id":4300,"date":"2015-09-02T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2015-09-02T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:26:14","slug":"need-your-umbrella-the-history-and-future-of-weather-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/need-your-umbrella-the-history-and-future-of-weather-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Need your umbrella? The history, and future, of weather prediction<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>Today\u2019s weather forecasts are able to accurately predict the weather an extra day in advance, compared to a decade ago. The authors write that every decade has provided another day of accurate prediction to the weather forecasts; they believe that today\u2019s 6-day forecast is as accurate as a 5-day forecast 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In this review article the authors describe the technological and scientific advances that have contributed to this success and the challenges that remain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v525\/n7567\/full\/nature14956.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in<em> Nature <\/em>on <strong>September 2<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Gilbert Brunet, Environment Canada, Dorval, Quebec<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Peter Bauer, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s weather forecasts are able to accurately predict the weather an extra day in advance, compared to a decade ago. The authors write that every decade has provided another day of accurate prediction to the weather forecasts; they believe that today\u2019s 6-day forecast is as accurate as a 5-day forecast 10 years ago. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2451,1011,176],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-earth-system","tag-technology","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-17m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}