On Mar 8, 2:31*pm, Bob Dobbs wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:

Our NWS meterologists here in California get it right about 90% of the
time, I'd guess. *Based on their record I go to them, and trust them,
more than I trust any private weather service I watch (which includes
local TV, Weather Channel and Weather Underground). *Their website
gives me everything I need to check the stats, the forecast, and to
assess on my own whether I think they're on the money.

That percentage drops when it gets down to this area of SoCal,
something about the effect of Point Conception on weather fronts
that defies the computer projections.

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Operator Bob
Echo Charlie 42

Could be. You guys get a decidely different weather regime than we
get here near SF...it seems to be more related to something chaotic
and not present here; our weather is boring and highly predictable,
yours is more interesting and difficult to gauge. I don't know -
might be the ocean currents (I think we get a stronger and more
persistent upwelled cold water influence here) or maybe SoCal climate
is more heavily affected by the polar/subtropical boundary (frontal
zone) or maybe a degree of continentality brought on by the desert.
This is all sheer guesswork - but I agree, it's different down thar.