Sunday, February 28, 2010

Winter '09 / '10 - Snow Storm #7 - Final Results

NEWxSFC Chief forecaster donsutherland1 has won this season/s 7th snowfall forecast contest.

SUMSQ error: 132.3"
Z-score: -1.129

Improvement over the average error: 78% (595")

Lowest station errors @BTV and ABE

His forecast placed 1st in all categiories - storm-total precipitation...total absolute error...average absolute error...and R-SQ

Congratulations donsutherland1!

2nd Place: weatherT (299.1"; -0.720)
3rd Place: TQ (342.6"; -0.616)
Honorable Mention: millersville_bauers (382.4"; -0.518)

Full forecast verification...storm summary...and final results at the Contest web site.

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