Saturday, January 28, 2023

Winter '22 / '23 - Snow Storm #1: FINAL Results and Storm Summary

Richmond ... VA
Broad St (uphill from Shockoe Bottom)
Presidents Day 18-FEB-79

Complete forecaster verification table and the FINAL Results / Storm Summary available at NEWxSFC/s home page.

SUMSQ:  sum of square error (")
SUMSQ Z:  Z-score
STP:  storm total precipitation error (")
TAE:  total absolute error (")
AAE:  average absolute error (")
(#):  category rank

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Forecast by Observed Snowfall Scatterplots for Top 4 Forecasts

Forecast/s dotted blue line below (above) the Observed snowfall/s solid red line ==> under (over) forecast bias.

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Comparison of Top 4 Forecasts and Observed Snowfall by Station

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Forecast Skill Score (measured against NWS ER WFOs)

 

Positive skill values indicate a forecast/s improvement over the NWS forecasts.

Bias is the arithmetic difference between the average Forecast snowfall and the average Observed snowfall (avgForecast - avgObserved).

2 comments:

Herb said...

TQ: For all the work you put into this, happy to see you take 1st. And with an impressive score!

TQ said...

tyvm herb.

it's long been a labor of love.

what i'd love even more though would be more snow storms like there were back in the aughts and early teens ...