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The advancing art - and science - of snow prediction
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This informative article from US magazine 'Ski' explains how snow forecasting is improving in accuracy, and why. Here are a few quotes (link to article below):
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"As computer power and memory have grown exponentially, scientists have been able to incorporate vastly expanded amounts of baseline data into increasingly sophisticated computer modeling. Twice daily for years, many of the world's countries have sent aloft weather balloons, 300 miles apart, laden with sensors and transmitters that relay information to the ground."

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""The computer-model accuracy looking at Day Five now is better than for Day Three in the 1970s""

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"For all these advances, predicting winter storms in the mountains is still "half science and half art-form" says [meteorologist] Dee, whose winter-snowfall website (johndee.com) has received as many as one million hits a day."

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"Experience is particularly crucial when trying to predict winter storms down to the local, ski-resort level. "There's something very magical, very special about Little Cottonwood Canyon, and the computer doesn't know that yet," says Dunn, who skis about 40 days each winter in the Salt Lake area."

The article, by Chris Solomon, is here.
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