Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Nighthawk117]

JRPGfan said:

Nighthawk117 said:

Ok, yes, health and the spread of this virus is definitely a global effort.  However, the weather forecast and hurricanes are not. The NWS doesn't need to know what the weather is doing in China to make a forecast for the 50 states.

Are you a "meteorologist" ? do you know what computer based weather models need in terms of data points to accurately predict things?
Anyone can "look" at a sky, see if its cloudy or not, and report such.

Im not claiming I know, however I suspect the more data points, they more accurate their predictions.
For all I know, it might actually be needed that they do get data points from even china, to acurrately predict things.
(else why would they bother to share results with one another?)

Common sense would dictate that the weather in China has no bearing on the formation of hurricanes and their track westward.