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When MIT professor and meteorologist Edward Lorenz realized in 1961 that long-term weather-forecasting was all but impossible, the discovery chagrined weathermen. But his underlying idea--that even the most minute aberrations could have vast repercussions on larger systems--gave birth to the modern field of chaos theory. He captured the public's imagination with the elegant concept in a 1972 paper titled "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Though Lorenz initially used a seagull as his example, he settled on the more poetic creature, giving rise...
...Science deserve much of the credit. Retired meteorologist Len van Burgel's task was to provide wind data from that long-ago November to help trace where debris from the Kormoran, found drifting days after the battle, could have come from. With no ocean wind reports available from that time, van Burgel dug through archives and extrapolated from land weather charts, then used computers and satellite imagery to model 1941 conditions. When the three approaches yielded similar results, he says, "we thought we were on to a good thing." Drift specialists could then identify where the German ship was likely...
...snow blanketed the campus during this season’s latest snowstorm on Friday, global warming was not deemed the culprit of the latest round of wet boots and dangerous slips outside Lamont library, according to one Harvard meteorologist...
...that it would discharge him if he did not renounce his father--who was suspected of being a communist because he read a Serbian newspaper--Air Force Lieut. Milo Radulovich said no and appealed. ("I could see a chain reaction," he said.) Radulovich, who later became a meteorologist, was made famous by Edward R. Murrow on CBS's See It Now (and in the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck); weeks after the broadcast the Air Force reversed its position. Radulovich...
...least as of now, the weather forecasts for Denver and Boston are not disastrous. "Our long-term models project higher-than-average temperatures, and lower-than-normal chance of precipitation," says Kyle Fredin, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Denver-Boulder office, of the games that would be played at Coors Field October 27-29. But remember, we're talking about the weather here. "In Denver, it's game on," says Fredin, recalling the blizzard of 1997 that fell before Halloween. "Anything goes here." In fact it snowed over the weekend in Denver, forcing the Rockies to practice...