## 7 Conclusions and Future Work
However, higher quality data and relevant features certainly improve the prediction quality given the same ML architecture. Future work includes benchmark studies on similar datasets to determine the effectiveness of XGBoost compared with conventional statistical techniques, fine-tuning on customer-specified sites with higher significance, generating probabilistic forecasts, and adding nowcast capabilities to the existing MSB framework, so that real-time observation data can be ingested to correct forecasts in short forecast windows (1 to 6 h ahead). Conceptualization, T.L. ; Methodology, M.H., T.L. and B.M. ; Investigation, M.H. and T.L. ; Writing--original draft, M.H. ; Writing--review & editing, T.L. and B.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This research received no external funding. Data Availability Statement: Data is contained within the article. Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. \begin{table}
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**Site/Lead Time (Days)** & **0** & **1** & **2** & **3** & **4** & **5** & **6** & **7** \\ \hline Alice Springs Airport & \(-1.01\) & \(-1.94\) & 5.53 & 15.99 & 14.57 & 17.94 & 12.72 & 9.59 \\ Archerfield Airport & 47.64 & 42.17 & 39.90 & 41.47 & 38.15 & 34.59 & 35.87 & 35.91 \\ Avalon Airport & 3.84 & 9.68 & 9.57 & 12.27 & 14.82 & 13.42 & 5.51 & 6.76 \\ Coffs Harbour Airport & 13.62 & 12.14 & 18.29 & 19.17 & 15.54 & 19.32 & 17.73 & 19.63 \\ Curtin Aero & \(-3.98\) & 1.22 & 4.51 & 7.58 & 8.47 & 8.37 & 6.47 & \(-0.52\) \\ Geraldton Airport & 21.68 & 8.46 & 9.49 & 4.84 & 3.64 & 9.64 & 6.36 & 12.70 \\ Hobart (Ellerslie Road) & 20.57 & 21.22 & 21.69 & 19.79 & 22.14 & 23.02 & 16.99 & 16.53 \\ Mount Isa & 22.57 & 27.18 & 34.10 & 33.14 & 32.53 & 29.46 & 28.11 & 31.96 \\ Tindal RAAF & 24.14 & 21.34 & 20.64 & 30.12 & 20.13 & 19.69 & 16.34 & 14.90 \\ Townsville & \(-6.72\) & \(-1.34\) & \(-1.47\) & 0.54 & 5.46 & 14.01 & 9.25 & \(-2.09\) \\ Woomera Aerodrome & 34.81 & 30.51 & 33.03 & 34.27 & 33.56 & 30.85 & 30.09 & 28.04 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 4: Percentage (%) of reduction of daily minimum RMSE by lead day, dew point temperature forecast. \begin{table}
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**Site/Lead Time (Days)** & **0** & **1** & **2** & **3** & **4** & **5** & **6** & **7** \\ \hline Alice Springs Airport & \(-1.01\) & \(-1.94\) & 5.53 & 15.99 & 14.57 & 17.94 & 12.72 & 9.59 \\ Archerfield Airport & 47.64 & 42.17 & 39.90 & 41.47 & 38.15 & 34.59 & 35.87 & 35.91 \\ Avalon Airport & 3.84 & 9.68 & 9.57 & 12.27 & 14.82 & 13.42 & 5.51 & 6.76 \\ Coffs Harbour Airport & 13.62 & 12.14 & 18.29 & 19.17 & 15.54 & 19.32 & 17.73 & 19.63 \\ Curtin Aero & \(-3.98\) & 1.22 & 4.51 & 7.58 & 8.47 & 8.37 & 6.47 & \(-0.52\) \\ Geraldton Airport & 21.68 & 8.46 & 9.49 & 4.84 & 3.64 & 9.64 & 6.36 & 12.70 \\ Hobart (Ellerslie Road) & 20.57 & 21.22 & 21.69 & 19.79 & 22.14 & 23.02 & 16.99 & 16.53 \\ Mount Isa & 22.57 & 27.18 & 34.10 & 33.14 & 32.53 & 29.46 & 28.11 & 31.96 \\ Tindal RAAF & 24.14 & 21.34 & 20.64 & 30.12 & 20.13 & 19.69 & 16.34 & 14.90 \\ Townsville & \(-6.72\) & \(-1.34\) & \(-1.47\) & 0.54 & 5.46 & 14.01 & 9.25 & \(-2.09\) \\ Woomera Aerodrome & 34.81 & 30.51 & 33.03 & 34.27 & 33.56 & 30.85 & 30.09 & 28.04 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 5: Reduction of critical error rates in percentage (%), hourly temperature forecast.