Patent ID: 7941274

Claim:
A system for presenting verification information to human forecasters for improved weather operational results comprising: a database storing weather parameter information of past weather situations for a geographic region and a time period of interest; a processor that accesses said past weather parameter information and determines past verification information; and a display for presenting said verification information for more than one weather parameter to a human forecaster, for comparison of said past verification information to a present weather situation, wherein said comparison allows said human forecaster to determine whether to intervene to edit a machine generated forecast for said present weather situation, the display including a first, second and third visual rendering of a map representing a geographic region, the first visual rendering including the machine generated forecast, the second visual rendering including the verification information, and the third visual rendering including an output forecast, the output forecast displaying a numerical representation of the effect of the edit to the machine generated forecast by said human forecaster, wherein said numerical representation includes a magnitude, the magnitude being one of: a positive number if an edited value of at least one weather parameter was above a machine generated weather parameter, or a negative number if the edited value of the at least one weather parameter was below the machine generated weather parameter, and wherein said numerical representation further comprises a color code to indicate whether said edit moved the forecast in the right direction, wherein a first color indicates that the edit moved the forecast in the right direction and improved the forecast, and a second color indicates that the edit moved the forecast in the wrong direction and made the forecast worse.