‘Jamaica didn’t know they were going to have such a direct hit’: Woman shares why you shouldn’t trust local news weather forecasts

If you've never heard of the ICON weather model, there's a chance you're not getting the most accurate weather predictions. A recent TikTok video details how the European and American weather systems differ and some reasons to add the European model into your forecast projections.

GFS stands for Global Forecast System and is the main U.S. weather system while Europeans tend to use the ECMWF and ICON models. According to a Wind.App article, "in general the most important variables of...