What percentage of weather forecasts are correct?

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asked Jan 4, 2019 in Weather by Nuttyhyperone (190 points)
What percentage of weather forecasts are correct?

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answered Jan 4, 2019 by Gabrielle988 (1,150 points)
80 percent of the time a weather forecast a week out is pretty accurate but any further than a week out the weather forecasts are only about 10% accurate.

It's very hard to predict the weather any further out than 1 day and be very accurate.

I use weather.com to check weather forecasts and they've been pretty accurate a week out on the weather forecast but it's all guesses through science and a bunch of computer programs.

So weather can change from day to day and be very different from what a forecaster or weather forecast website states.

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