This is what the weather forecast has looked like according to AccuWeather.com for the last three days. Note that today and tomorrow are rainy, but after that it shows sun. Yesterday, it said that yesterday and today are rainy, but tomorrow we’d see the sun.
This isn’t an isolated incident either. The weather predictions in Charlottesville are abysmally bad. While it may not necessarily be the meterologists fault. I’ve tried to find an explanation for this, and this is the best I could find (Washington Post):
What is about these two regions, D.C. and Houston, that make predicting precipitation difficult? Is it the closeness to bodies of water?
Yes. When you have a large body of water near you it does make forecasting a bit more difficult. Weather balloons that feed the computer models do not go up out over the Atlantic.
The problem is Charlottesville is nearly 100 miles inland, but maybe it’s still close enough where the ocean affects it. Perhaps I’ll email my local meteorologist.
