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How do you predict the weather 100 and 200 years out. (Original Post) malaise Jun 15 OP
Weather, no. Climate can be modeled and they are getting more and more accurate... Wounded Bear Jun 15 #1
Even Then... ProfessorGAC Jun 15 #3
This was part of Donvict's word salad a few minutes ago malaise Jun 15 #4
I need another clue to guess what this is about. Irish_Dem Jun 15 #2
Trump. Disaffected Jun 15 #5
I figured the orange idiot was involved. I see. Irish_Dem Jun 15 #6
Weather house... ultralite001 Jun 15 #7
With no concern at all for accuracy. We're not going to be here. Leave it for our progeny to complain. Norrrm Jun 15 #8

Wounded Bear

(62,534 posts)
1. Weather, no. Climate can be modeled and they are getting more and more accurate...
Sun Jun 15, 2025, 06:37 PM
Jun 15

Not sure where your comment came from, but I don't know anybody who is predicting weather 100 years out. Now, they can predict some things about weather like whether they expect more and larger storms and variations in rainfall patterns and drought patterns.

ProfessorGAC

(73,651 posts)
3. Even Then...
Sun Jun 15, 2025, 06:47 PM
Jun 15

...climatologists add a lot of disclaimers to any predictions over 20 or 25 years.
I think with things like drought probabilities though, they're pretty confident at 5 years, maybe up to 10.
With atmospheric warming being a function of CO2 concentration and inarguable thermodynamic principles, they can probably accurately project temperature to a high degree of precision out 50 years, and that would make greater chances of major storms an unavoidable outcome.

Norrrm

(2,439 posts)
8. With no concern at all for accuracy. We're not going to be here. Leave it for our progeny to complain.
Sun Jun 15, 2025, 08:05 PM
Jun 15
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