Stone
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Nope, it's nothing like that. That is called Climatology, not Meteorology. Climatology is the science of past weather or weather history and while there is some of that injected into a forecast the bulk of the forcast is derived from computer models that use other paramaters as their mainstay, those being predominately the 'Equations of Motion'. Yes, hard is it is to accept, Meteorology is a science, by definition.I could be wrong but isn't local forcasting just gathering old data and predicting from it what is going to happen now? Like the last 50 out of 100 data samples for conditions being x temp, x barometric pressure, x wind speed, x humidity etc gave rain so we will have 50% chance or rain today?