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by csaid81 2195 days ago
I think the answer is not "nope" but "probably nope". That video is perhaps overconfident in our ability to detect these storms.

From the article:

> One-third of major storms arrive unexpectedly, according to the SWPC’s own 2010 analysis. And that’s not just the small storms. According to a news article in Science, the SWPC might be also be poor at identifying the characteristics of severe storms, since they are so rare.

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Sometimes you get close enough to zero that for any reasonable application, the answer can be rounded to zero.