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...What is likely is that the weather, as it has done throughout history, will continue to toy with its would-be forecasters, embarrassing them with rain when they call for clear skies, drought when they predict precipitation. Indeed, the weatherman's plight will probably not change a millibar from that described by the English meteorologist Sir Napier Shaw. Wrote he: "A forecaster's heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger meddleth not with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather: Prediction and Control | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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