• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

UK Met Office maps of 2070-2100 weather

I stated earlier:

Over time, any forecasting model worth its jock should work out to climatology (for temperature, precip. etc.) for any given location. It may miss events (resulting in bad forecats in the short term), but over the long term it should be correct (for climate). The climate models aren't simply taking WRF/GFS to 100000000000 hours and saying yes, the climate will be warming.
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All fine and dandy if the GCM predicts climatology. What I'm running into with one GCM in my research is that it misses over HALF of all high cloud events (> 6km) greater than 3 hr in length at a specific location. Considering the same model rarely has false alarms when comparing to observation data... there are significant issues with coming up with an accurate climatology of clouds. If that's off, then I also have to question how well it will perform in the future.
 
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