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In the first example, we use the daily weather dataset of the municipality of Naples (Italy) starting from data collected from 2003 to 2015 making predictions on mean temperature, max temperature and min temperature, all considered daily. In the second example, we use the daily mean temperature measured at the weather station \u201cChiavari Caperana\u201d in the Liguria Italian Region. We compare the results with our method, the average seasonal variation, Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and the usual fuzzy transforms concluding that the best results are obtained under our approach in both examples. 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