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17 March 2015
This Being my Bi-Annual rant on Daylight/Summer Time
I’ve not taken the time to research it, but I suspect summer time leads to poorer short term weather forecasts, the reason being we get the evening model guidance an hour later. This means forecasters like me cannot see all the latest data before the 10/11 PM newscasts, but that said, I’ll let John Oliver at HBO make my case this year, as he does it much better than I …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.