Cloud-Scale Model Forecasts: Extreme Sensitivity to Environmental Conditions

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Implications

• No way to know if a particular sounding will result in a reliable model solution.
• Forecasters must be wary: current generation of cloud-scale models apparently cannot provide reliable explicit forecasts of thunderstorm behavior.
  • There are examples of successful explicit forecasts, along with an equal number of explicit forecast failures.
    

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