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...Formerly called Weatherman, from a line in a Bob Dylan song: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...
Wrathful God. 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...
...well-prepared inebriate fell asleep in a corner wearing flippers, a snorkel and a life preserver, while his brother wandered outside singing Hindu praises to the 60 mile-an-hour gusts still whipping through the town. Most were still snoring peacefully when I returned the next afternoon, cursing every weatherman who had ever picked up a satellite photograph...
...pressure to cope with. While solidly to the left of the mainstream, he is remembered as a relatively moderate voice inside the paper's debates. Fallows remembers being accused of neo-nazism by students on the far left who, he says, suspected anyone "who was not part of the Weatherman faction." And moderate and conservative students labeled him a "beserk lefty," Fallows adds...
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody can do much about it even today. Short-range forecasting has improved enormously in recent years, even though squalls occur on days when the weatherman insists the precipitation probability is near zero. And despite great advances in techniques and technology, the discipline of climatology-the study of long-range trends in weather-is still an inexact science, to say the least. Climatologists still disagree on whether earth's long-range outlook is another ice age, which could bring mass starvation and fuel shortages, or a warming trend, which could melt the polar...