- WxChallenge
The WxChallenge is a weather forecasting competition between colleges in North America. The competition is run by the
University of Oklahoma . In its first official semester, fall 2006, there were 1,262 participants from 53 institutions. A similar competition, theNational Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest , recently ended, partially due to this competition.Organization
Entrants in the contest must be affiliated with a college or university, but they range in age and knowledge from
undergraduates toprofessors . Each semester, 5 cities are picked for forecasting; the current city changes every 2 weeks. Contestants forecast 4 days per week for the following day's hightemperature (inFahrenheit ), low temperature, maximum sustained wind speed (in knots) and precipitation (in 1/100ths of an inch).One "error" point is given for each degree of error on temperature, 1/2 an error point is given for each knot of wind speed error.
Precipitation is scored as follows:
*0.4 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range from 0.00 to 0.10 inches inclusive
*0.3 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range from 0.11 to 0.25 inches inclusive
*0.2 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range from 0.26 to 0.50 inches inclusive
*0.1 points for each .01 inch of error in the verification range over 0.50 inchesWinners
*2006-07:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*2007-08:Massachusetts Institute of Technology External links
* [http://www.wxchallenge.com Official WxChallenge Website]
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