What is the Brier score of my local weather station? (Forecast whether my weather forecast is casting for accuracy.)
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Dec 31
19%
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The Objective

Forecast whether my forecast is acurate.

Process

Each day at 8:30pm EST (starting Dec 1):

  1. I will check my local weather forecast on the Weather Channel (for tomorrow). I am not going to reveal my zip code, but I am located in the New York tri-state area. I will record the forecast as the highest percent chance of rain throughout the 24h period.

  2. I am going to record whether there was precipitation during the previous 24 hour period..

  3. I will enter all of the data in the table below.

  4. At the end of the month, I will compute the Brier score.

Resolution

This market will resolve to 100x the Brier score I compute (rounded).

(Remember a lower value would mean the weather station is more accurate and vice versa)


Data

December 2:

  • Forecast: 100%

  • Results: Rain

December 3:

  • Forecast: 4%

  • Results: No Rain

December 4:

  • Forecast: 7%

  • Results: TBD

  • Update 2025-12-02 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The Brier score will be calculated using the formulation where 0.25 is no better than chance (as opposed to the doubled formulation where 0.5 is no better than chance).

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No rain today; only 7% for tomorrow

It did, in fact, rain today. Only 4% for tomorrow... let's see how it goes!

Missed opportunity:

"Forecast whether my weather forecast is casting for accuracy."

@Quroe Added to title, thanks!

which formulation are we using? I have seen some where .25 is no better than chance, and some where they double it so that point is .5

@Wott let's go with .25

Forecast for tomorrow is 100% chance of rain.

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@NotJeromeHPowell i don't really check the weather lol

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