...yes, the weather thread has not been
quite as popular as some others out there,
your thread included Jon;-) Of course I've
not made much of an effort to seed it with
cool links and spam the other threads for
an audience, maybe someday--perhaps next
spring when I will be home for about a month,
plus spring is a pretty active weather month
around the country...
So, how do you spice up an online forum about
the weather? --I'm often batting around ideas
about on online weather website--easy to
digest model data, animated gif's and such,
chat rooms, ask the experts--all that.
Basically everthing you would think that
The Weather Channel or Accuweather should
be doing by now--on a regional scale, but
is simply not economically viable. There is
a limit to how much of this sort of thing
we can do at the NWS--do anything good and
you get slapped by the private mets for
competing--although lately there may be more
of an initiative to get creative with our
websites, we shall see--it is all completely
unorganized right now.
TWC and Accuweather--
These guys have a great business model right
now--repackage free government data. And although
they do their own forecasts (to a very limited
degree compared to the NWS) these 'forecasts' are
all rooted in the same guidance, NWS numerical
models--merely different interpretations of that
guidance.
Accuweather even claims to be more accurate
than the NWS...I don't know about that, if
you get to choose the one measure by which skill
is gauged, and disregard everything else, then
that one statistic does the lie for you.
I put this thread here awhile back to try
and bounce a few ideas of folks. I've not
yet struck it rich playing the stock market,
so I'm not quite ready to start my regional
weather website yet...but it's an idea that
festers in me, an itch you cant scratch.
Have a great day Jon, happy trades and all that
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