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raining showers develop probably late in

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the day on thursday 20 tomorrow in the

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morning snow heavy at times 48 inches

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during the morning winds picking up

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northeasterly 15 to 30 and dusty

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becoming north northwesterly paddy's day

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and then upper 60s for sunshine thursday

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friday

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my name is nicole paschall and i want to

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know

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how topper shut gets the weather as far

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as the data where that comes from

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and how far in advance does he know when

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something like a storm is coming we get

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all of our data pretty much from noaa

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whether it's current data or model data

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in other words here's a go satellite

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this is what's happening now over the

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past 12 hours so that's invaluable to us

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i think generally speaking weather

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forecasting as a whole has gotten very

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good

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from 48 hours inside

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when he gets the weather wrong i mean

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how quickly he knows that things have

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shifted so that he can get the right

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information out we can react

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almost immediately if i see new data

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that doesn't support the forecast

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we can change it my name is mike regan i

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would like to know from topper shut how

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far in advance he has to start doing his

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research to come up with one day's

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forecast

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well mike it depends on the situation

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like the blizzard

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that storm itself was on our seven day

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for seven days that's in winter time you

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get big large organized systems in the

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summertime it's not as easy

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so

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it depends on the time of year usually

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fall and winter it's a little easier

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because the systems are larger what

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types of technological advancements are

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are currently being made to try to

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improve the percentage of accuracy with

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weather forecasts well now we get

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pictures more often we were getting

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pictures with a spinner back in the 70s

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and 80s and that was i think a picture

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a half an hour or an hour

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and now we can get them every 15 minutes

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my name is jen rivers and i'd like to

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ask topper shut how is accurate weather

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data computed jennifer we use a lot of

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things a lot of different things go into

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a forecast we'll use goes data because

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we want to know the starting point see

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what's happening now both satellite goes

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data radar imagery

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current conditions and then

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look at model data and there's so much

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model data now you have to know which

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models perform best under which

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situation

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so it's oftentimes

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a blend of current conditions different

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model data climatology and local

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knowledge i'm doug pierce and i'd like

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to ask toppershut how do you use

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satellite data to predict the weather

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doug when the data comes from goes

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you've got infrared satellite and you've

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got visible okay so infrared measures

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temperature but the visible is kind of

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cool

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also for the same reason that if as if

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you were in space looking down you see

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exactly what's there

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and in the winter time it's kind of cool

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to put up a visible on a clear day and

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say hey see all the white that's not

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clouds that's no cover

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these satellites go a long way to

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protect life and property they help keep

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you safe when they help us

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you know forecast the weather and so we

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can tell people what to do to stay safe

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if you came to me and said i'm going to

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take one thing away from you i would

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probably keep my goes satellite

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satellite meteorology is invaluable for

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determining you know dry lines where the

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next line of thunderstorms will develop

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so um yeah don't take my satellite away

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one

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zero and liftoff of the delta iv rocket

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with goes-p completing a new weather

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satellite constellation