Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Monday, April 28, 2025

The Best Way To Measure Winter As A Whole

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April is winding down.  I was sitting on post this until the end of the month.  After all, we've had light snow in late April even early...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

How Common Are Spring Temperature Swings In Northern Ohio?

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Our human nature is an exercise in self-deception. In the case of weather, our biases can undermine how we look at weather forecasts and pas...
Friday, October 28, 2022

How Do Meteorologists Define Precipitation Chances? Part 2

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Part 1 of the Precipitation Percentage topic talked about the technical definition and my definition and usage.  What about on-air meteorol...

What Does Percentage of Precip Actually Mean? Part 1

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What does the Percentage of Precipitation actually mean on a weather forecast?   Does it mean we'll receive rain 40% of the time, 40% of...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

50 Cognitive Biases - These Influence How You View The Weather!

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Over the last decade or so I've written about cognitive bias in how it shapes the way we view weather conditions and the weather forecas...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Winter Snowstorm Recap MLK 2022 - Chapter 3 of 3 (Mindset Behind Snowfall Forecasts)

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So what happened?  Why did the snowfall amounts trend higher? Late Sunday evening model started to show rapidly rising air (10,000 feet) on ...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Progression of April Cold

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After an extremely mild winter, the pattern across the North American continent shifted significantly colder around the second week of April...