Mahesh Kulkarni
At fifty-six, Mahesh Kulkarni checks a forecast bust against the exact model cycle that promised it, then asks what the forecast horizon was supposed to forgive. Years spent as the continuity supervisor for rain scenes on film sets left him unable to let a changed pressure tendency pass without checking what came immediately before it.
Articles by Mahesh Kulkarni
Wind Chill Versus 'Real Feel' Debate Descends Into Thermodynamic Warfare
Office disagreement over which temperature metric 'matters' escalates to whiteboard equations and a formal grievance
ECMWF And GFS Models Disagree, Forecaster Chooses Based On Which Confirms Existing Bias
Competing global models offer divergent solutions; meteorologist selects the one that matches what he already thinks