Suppose it is warm and raining, and a cold front is moving toward your location.

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Suppose it is warm and raining, and a cold front is moving toward your location. Directly behind the cold front it is cold and snowing. Still further behind the front the weather is cold and clearing. If the front is scheduled to pass your area in 6 hours, a persistence forecast for your area for 12 hours from now would be: 1. A. cold and cloudy B. warm and raining C. clear skies D. not enough information Weather forecast that predicts that the future weather will be the same as the present weather is called a persistence forecast. 2. A. True B. False A "forecast based on weather types" is a forecasting technique that produces several versions of a forecast model, each beginning with slightly different weather information to reflect errors in the measurements. 3. A. true B. false 4. A persistence forecast could be quite accurate when: A. a frontal system approaches your location at constant speed B. yeu are positioned in the middle of a large, stationary air mass. C. All the above are correct D. Neither (A) nor (B) is correct A forecast method that compares past weather maps and weather patterns to those of the present is: 5. A. persistenc method B. analogue method C. trends method D. none of the above

Explanation / Answer

1)- option B , which is warm aand raining.

2)-option A, that is true

3)- option B, that is false, it is called ensemble forecasting.

4)- option B, that is when you are positioned in themiddleof the large stationary air mass.

5)- option B, that is the analogue method which compares past weather maps and weather patterns.

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