Nowcasting vs. Forecasting

[Miloslav Tlamicha]

Nowcasting vs forecasting — which do you actually rely on?

We recently published a deep-dive on how nowcasting and traditional forecasting serve different needs. 👉 Nowcasting vs Forecasting: Where Real-Time Data Matters Most

The key distinction: nowcasting uses real-time radar, satellite, and surface data to predict what happens in the next few hours, while numerical models take over for anything beyond that window - and the two are increasingly being blended together.

Curious what the community actually does in practice:

When in need, which meteoblue tools do you use? Are they forecast or nowcast? Or do you compare both?