What they're saying is, 'It's so dismal, you're a sight for sore eyes.' " The last six weeks have not been the snowiest, according to calculations by meteorologists at Pennsylvania State University, based on National Weather Service data.
It's not all that different from how meteorologists make "forecast models" based on huge amounts of old weather data.
These divide the atmosphere into cubic "cells", which interact with each other according to equations based on meteorologists' understanding of how the atmosphere behaves.
For centuries, meteorologists relied on statistical tables based on historical averages — it rains about 45 percent of the time in London in March, for instance — to predict the weather.
Furthermore, when large prediction errors occur, meteorologists must also modify the forecast based on the obtained errors.
Most of us are happy to label clouds "fluffy ones", or "nasty black ones", but meteorologists identify more than 50 cloud types based on shape and altitude.
Based on weather observations by Dutch hobby meteorologists and a station network in Rotterdam (Netherlands), we show that water bodies increase rather than decrease the 95 percentile of the daily maximum UHI.
However, figures – based on Met Office data – prepared by meteorologist Ed Hawkins of Reading University show that average global temperatures were already more than 1C above pre-industrial levels for every month except one over the past year and peaked at +1.38C in February and March.
In Kenya contacts between meteorologists and some policymakers seem to be regular, based on a discussion with a representative of the Ministry of Arid Land.
Both are based on works by Michelangelo.
