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by MeteorMarc 1441 days ago
It would also be fun to have the historical weather *forecasts* so that you can compare the forecasts with the eventually measured data.
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Actually, they are historical weather forecasts, but assembled to a continuous time-series.

Storing each weather forecast individually to a performance evaluation for "how good a forecast in 5 days is", would require a lot of storage. Some local weather models update every 6 hours.

But even with a continuous time-series, you can already tell how good or bad a forecast compared to measurements are. Assuming, your measurements are correct ;-)

This would still be a remarkable dataset for learning. And worth the storage. Though it might need other inputs as well (like pressure zone etc.) to escape potential biases.