{"id":5006,"date":"2018-01-06T17:21:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T17:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box2063.temp.domains\/~forecau0\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:58:02","slug":"betting-on-rain-the-accuracy-and-reliability-of-precipitation-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/2018\/01\/06\/betting-on-rain-the-accuracy-and-reliability-of-precipitation-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Betting on Rain?  the Accuracy and Reliability of Precipitation Forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Like my last article where I used independent forecast accuracy assessment from <strong>ForecastWatch<\/strong> to demonstrate that location-specific temperature forecasts are skillful out to around 10 days into the future, this month we use their service to demonstrate the accuracy of rainfall predictions. The data discussed here is based on an average of many different weather service providers\u2019 daily nine-day forecasts collected each day for about 750 U.S. locations during January through November of 2017. These are not \u201carea\u201d forecasts where a successful forecast only means rain fell in a larger area. Rather, these are point-to-point comparisons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionag.com\/systems-management\/data\/betting-on-rain-the-accuracy-and-reliability-of-precipitation-forecasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like my last article where I used independent forecast accuracy assessment from ForecastWatch to demonstrate that location-specific temperature forecasts are skillful out to around 10 days into the future, this month we use their service to demonstrate the accuracy of rainfall predictions. The data discussed here is based on an average of many different weather&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5425,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forecastwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}