The Weather Lab with Paul Huttner: Same data, different forecasts

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The National Weather Service offices in Chanhassen also house the River Forecast Center, which makes flood forecasts for much of the Upper Midwest.
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This week on the Weather Lab, MPR chief meteorologist Paul Huttner pulled back the curtain on weather modeling and why different agencies can get such different forecasts out of the same underlying weather data. University of Washington professor Cliff Mass, FiveThirtyEight.com writer Harry Enten, Peter Johnson from supercomputing company Cray Inc., and Jon Lawhead of the University of Southern California joined Paul for discussion.