Word: weathermen
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...result, however, was that dining-hall-tray sledding enthusiasts turned to their second-favorite pastime: complaining about the dead-wrong forecast and the seemingly know-nothing weathermen. In fact, last week, the grumbling reached such a high pitch that we feel compelled to respond—in defense of meteorology...
...major snowstorm (but no less influential to our daily lives): temperature, wind speed, humidity, and more. Even with major weather events such as blizzards or hurricanes, they are more often right than they are wrong. It is easy to forget this, exactly because we have come to take weathermen for granted...
...were possible to know the current conditions in every cubic centimeter of the atmosphere at any given time, meteorologists would be able to predict the weather months in advance with perfect accuracy. However, that wealth of data is just not realistic, and so, like the rest of us, weathermen do the best they can with what they have. Considering that a microscopic shift in wind direction—in the right context—can drastically change the conditions we experience on the ground, we should instead be impressed with how often they get it right...