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Back in the 1980s the weather bureau was often wrong, stating it would rain when often it didnt. Then the bureau changed to theres a chance of a shower. Nowadays its just the predicted percentage of chance that it perhaps, might rain.
The other day the radio announced that it may rain, which was surprising because at the time it was absolutely pouring down - raining cats and dogs!
Wish theyd just get the rain forecasts right!
The fact is that the information is always there but its a matter of sourcing the information you want accurately .
The average person listening to the radio or tv news etc is going to get fed basic levelreports, weather is much more complicated than that .
Getting the latest accurate data with speed is the huge difference nowadays.
Also depends on how much studying time you invest on the topic .
Anyone who can read weather could tell you what it was like in june 1988 because theres 3 to 4 different sources of information posted here on WS, All varying somewhat differently .
The best weather info is from this year, the old paper clippings just support the modern hindcast data .
"data come from this reanalysis model trustworthy and used in many climate studies" - oceanographer 2017.
http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/climate-reanalysis/era-interim
This is one of the sources that was used to source my information .
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13707406