Weather Model Upgrades Offer Better Forecasts by Jordanna Sheermohamed of Weather Forecast Solutions Weather forecast models have become much more sophisticated as computing processing power has increased. It stands to reason that a better forecast means more accurate and better lead time to prepare for environmental disasters. But what exactly happens under the hood […]
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Daylight Saving Time a Short-term Investment Strategy by Jordanna Sheermohamed of Weather Forecast Solutions “Spring forward; fall back” may be one of the most useful pneumonic phrases in existence to help us remember how to reset our clocks: an hour ahead in the spring, at the beginning of daylight saving time; and an hour back […]
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Sound on the Water Affected by Temperature, Molecular Density by Jordanna Sheermohamed of Weather Forecast Solutions Before the invention of GPS, radio or radar, maritime navigation depended on different means of communication to relay messages between vessels. To compensate during times of limited visibility, sound was and is still often used to relay a boat’s […]
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Weather Instruments Crucial In Plotting Safe Course at Sea by Jordanna Sheermohamed of Weather Forecast Solutions In a land-loving lifestyle, an increasing dependency on the incessant beeps and boops of technologically driven weather forecasts is a given. Text alerts of incoming rain and other weather notifications from hyper-local forecasting services using information likely crowd-sourced from […]
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Wind Patterns Blow with Local Flair, but the Science is Universal by Jordanna Sheermohamed of Weather Forecast Solutions While there are the large-scale global winds that circumnavigate the Earth, there are seasonal and geographically influenced wind patterns that happen on smaller scales too. Regardless of the scale size, winds are a function of forced movement […]
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