Accuweather, The Weather Channel, and the PopSci Dartboard battle it out.
By William G. Phillips
Posted 04.22.2002 at 5:08 pm
"Even I could predict the weather better than those guys." That statement, uttered by Managing Editor Jill Shomer on a colder-than-predicted January afternoon, started it all. The mounting conventional wisdom, it seemed to us, was that today's meteorologists couldn't forecast clouds in a rainstorm. Fair? Certainly not, but poor recent forecasting had us questioning the accuracy of 5- and even 3-day forecasts. Could we get the same precision from, say, a dartboard?
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