Why Weather Forecasts Are Wrong So Often

It's easy to blame weather forecasting when the forecast says one thing and ends up being another, but Brigham Young University mechanical engineering professor Julie Crockett says it may not be the fault of the meteorologists.  According to Crockett, forecasters make mistakes because the models they use for predicting weather can't accurately track highly influential elements called internal waves. Atmospheric internal waves are waves that propagate between layers of low-density and high-density air. Although hard to describe, almost everyone has seen or felt these waves. Cloud patterns made up of repeating lines are the result of internal waves, and airplane turbulence happens when internal waves run into each other and break. read more

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