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No one is talking about the real reason our weather forecasts are getting worse when we need them most. For nearly a century, the entire forecasting system has depended on twice-daily weather balloon launches. But that backbone is breaking. Stations are skipping launches, equipment is failing, budgets are thinning, and the upper-air data that global models rely on is disappearing.
In this video, I break down the hidden crisis behind modern forecasting failures—from Alaska’s devastating storm that struck hundreds of miles from where models predicted, to Hurricane Melissa’s chaotic GFS tracks that showed everything from Florida impacts to a clean miss.
This isn’t a model problem.
It’s a data problem.
And it’s starting to show up everywhere.
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