Assuming you know last night's minimum temperature, what weather information would you use to predict tonight's minimum temperature??

What will be the ideal response?


ANSWER: With such little information, it would likely be best to make a persistence forecast, which is simply a prediction that future weather will be the same as present weather. If it is snowing today, a persistence forecast would call for snow through tomorrow.?

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