Is AccuWeather really accurate?
Weather forecasts are just that, forecasts. Accordingly, they will probably never be 100% accurate. But, how do you even measure forecast accuracy? If one forecast for tomorrow says “high in the 40s” while another forecast says “high 47,” and the actual high is 48 – technically, the first forecast was correct, while the second forecast was not. Yet, because the second forecast provides a greater level of detail, it is more valuable, and many would consider it to be more accurate. There are many different ways to measure forecast accuracy, some very simple and objective, others more complex and perhaps more subjective. Some parameters are easy to verify (for example if you forecast a high of 47 and the actual high is 48, you are off by one degree), while others are much harder (if a day is sunny for the most part, but there is a five minute-light shower, which forecast is better: “mostly sunny” or “chance of showers”?). And so, the question of forecast accuracy is not as easy as it may
