Full description of events: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/1qejtm1/january_14_2026_extreme_weather_events_natural/

after 2 weeks of fog today we have pleasant weather and sky can be seen clearly.

I used backend snapshot data from the iOS weather app I’ve been building (The Weather Recap) to scan ~120 locations for large forecast misses over the past week. Two cases stood out:

1. Chicago (Jan 10, 2026):
   • The 120-hour forecast substantially underpredicted the eventual maximum temperature. Most of the correction didn’t appear until roughly 72 hours before the event.
2. Port Townsend, WA (Jan 12, 2026):
   • A high-impact precipitation event that remained significantly underforecasted even at a 24-hour lead time.

The figure shows forecast values issued at 120h, 72h, and 24h lead times compared to the actual value for the target day. Errors relative to the observation are annotated.

Forecast data are from Open-Meteo (ECMWF/GEFS-based). Observed daily values are taken post-event from the same pipeline. Analysis and visualization were done by me in R.

The app use only location-level weather snapshots; no user accounts or personal data are collected ever.

Thought this was pretty cool. My brain did a figurative cartwheel once i saw this coming out of work. Could barely see it without sunglasses on and photo doesn't do it justice.

I thought this was cool! Never see a snow devil before!

Golly, I can't believe people 😡