Eastern Iowa Farmer Spring 2021
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mother nature<br />
Weather observation:<br />
not a spectator sport<br />
After he moved to a farmhouse atop<br />
a hill, Charlotte man began to track<br />
current conditions to help with forecasting<br />
BY sara millhouse<br />
eastern iowa farmer<br />
<strong>Farmer</strong>s have always kept<br />
one eye on the clouds, but<br />
nowadays, they’re checking<br />
the National Weather<br />
Service website, Weather<br />
Underground’s app or the radar tracker<br />
of a local television station, too.<br />
Grumbling about the meteorologists’<br />
mess-up is still a favorite<br />
pastime. However, weather forecasts<br />
have gotten a lot better than they used<br />
to be.<br />
Five-day weather predictions now<br />
are as accurate as one-day forecasts<br />
were in 1980, reports the journal<br />
Science. Seven-day forecasts are now<br />
correct about 80% of the time, and<br />
five-day forecasts have 90% accuracy<br />
rates, according to the National<br />
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