Welcome to Weather World's complete and informative instructions on how to make your own weather forecasts. The information that you read below has been compiled by many meteorologists, and it's these techniques that these same meteorologists use.
Weather forecasting is a science and an art.
To make a good forecast you must know some meteorology and have a hunch what is going to happen based on experience. Forecasting temperature and precipitation will be discussed here since they are the most relevant parameters to the public. Before attempting to perform a weather forecast, one should understand a few key concepts in atmospheric science. Effects of topography, bodies of water, the urban heat island, etc. The following discussion will assume the reader is familiar with these concepts.