I usually follow the weather pretty closely in my area.  I often look at the weather page in the newspaper and go to weather.com when I wake up just to see what I can expect.

Weather forecasts are usually to be taken with a grain of salt if you're looking at any sort of extended forecast.  What I saw today, though, I had to write about here.

According to one local newspaper, the high temperature on Friday, March 23 is supposed to be 63 F.  Another local paper says 59 F.  According to weather.com, the high temperature on Friday is supposed to be 45 F (taken around 6:30 pm eastern time).  What does Cleveland's weather master, Dick Goddard, say?  He edges toward the lower extreme: 50 F (6:00 news extended forecast).  All these forecasts were taken on Tuesday, March 20.

It's not unusual for different sources to disagree slightly on the forecast, but this is a difference of almost 20 degrees between the extremes!  I'm not sure what could cause such a disagreement, but now I'm interested.

Obviously the two extreme sources are using different methods to calculate the high temperature.  I want to know who is better.  We'll see on Friday what the official high is and whose method is more accurate in this case.  My instinct is to go with Goddard, but we'll have to see.