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How do the weather people estimate the amount of snow or rain that will fall in a given period?

Asked by judochop (16124points) December 21st, 2008 from iPhone

I was watching the news and the weather man got so happy that he got the snow fall right! Makes me think they kind of just guess.

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However they do it, they are often wrong.

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