Incorrect Cook (Lake Vermilion) short term weather forecasts

[PSU]

Hello Friends:

Is it just me, or does it often seem as though the weather experts get the forecast wrong for Cook and Lake Vermilion. I have a number of weather apps I use to monitor what's going on weather wise and woke up this morning seeing partly cloudy (which means mostly sunny) and a high of 70 degrees. At least on our part of the lake (Frazer / Smart's Bay) it has been chilly, windy, rainy and cloudy most of the day-we actually lost four trees during that noonish storm. The daily weather forecasts when you wake up are usually pretty darn close with all of the new technology, but it seems to me that Cook is often way off. Someone told me once me it has to do with our proximity to the Laurentian Divide. I seem to recall we had a weather expert on this site (Frank, maybe?).

Thoughts?

 

 

[Casey Sunsdahl]

Not only the divide but the lake itself.. 

[Cliff Wagenbach]

I agree with Casey.

Cook and Orr seem to almost always be in the worst of the weather!

Cliff

[trolloni]

Old  timers around cook always told me go by Canadian forecast,and  that there is only one month it doesn't snow ,JULY !

[SkunkedAgain]

Precipitation seems to be the hardest thing for forecasters to predict, especially the closer that you are to bigger bodies of water. I will usually rely on the temperature predictions, but always go with the notion that Big V is similar to being in the BWCA. It will rain at random and there is no good way to know ahead of time.