• gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    The European weather models have also been overstating severe weather

    I really just think it’s as I said and nobody wants to be caught under predicting weather so they default to the worst values their models predict

    • blueduck@piefed.social
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      16 hours ago

      Similar to how the US started enforcing fines for late arrivals of airplanes. So the airlines just extended the “duration” of their flights to include the expected delays and now they’re “99.9% on time”. You can see this in action when the pilot says “well we’re waiting for something before we leave. It’ll be another 15 minutes but we’ll still get you there on time.”