We consult the five-day weather forecast.
Local and regional weather patterns are more difficult to predict, as anyone who has relied on a five-day weather forecast can understand.
I said I wondered whether Dracula might be responsible for the six-day weather forecast: thunder and lightning, rain, snow, rain, thunder and lightning, and – only on the last day – sun.
Driving outside Oklahoma City one evening last November, I ended up stopped in traffic next to an electronic billboard that displayed, in rotation, an advertisement for one per cent cash back at the Thunderbird Casino, an advertisement for a Cash N Gold pawnshop, a three-day weather forecast, and an announcement of a 3.0 earthquake, in Noble County.
This data is then buttressed with forecasts from NOAA's seven-day global weather forecasting model and seasonal climate forecasting model.
Normally the transit through Christchurch is a two-day process: we pick up our extreme cold weather clothing at the Clothing Distribution Center the day after arriving in New Zealand, and, weather permitting, board a flight for McMurdo the next morning.
His weather caster told him, "You have a three-day window with the weather where we can launch the invasion". The next day, the weather had calmed down enough.
The researchers analysed records of the hottest three-day period at seven weather stations in northern Europe, from Ireland to the Netherlands to Scandinavia, where data was easily accessible.
Final day, weather permitting.
Weather forecasters' seven-day forecasts are as skillful now as their five-day forecasts were 20 years ago.
