Thank you so much for coming and braving the weather, what a great day to have a book about the weather. If you have been following the weather, who does not these days, you will have noticed at least two things, first it is getting weirder and wilder with bigger storms, hotter and more freezing temperatures and greater extremes seemingly all times of the year. Second the forecaster are Getting Better at predicting what is about to hit us, they still do not get it right 100 of the time but their accuracy is definitely improved and so has the timeliness of the report. These days were where not only of one weather model but of multiple ones simulating the fruifuture space of the atmosphe is north of a model, european model, global, and a number of others and their forecasting not just todays weather or tomorrows but whether over the next ten days and beyond. Andrew blum got interested in the stuff, he was not satisfied with explanations that attributed the advances and whether science fo
Next, journalist andrew blum on his book the weather machine where he first the Technology Used to develop daily weather reports. From politics and prose bookstore in washington dc this runs one hour. Good evening everybody. Im the coowner of politics and prose along with my wife in on behalf of everyone here, welcome. Thank you for coming. Congratulations on here braving the weather to get your weather. What a great day to have a book about the weather, isnt it if you have been following the weather and who doesnt these days you will have noticed, at least two things. First, that it is getting weirder and wilder with bigger storms, hotter and more freezing temperatures, greater extremes then seemingly of all times of the year. Second, forecasters are Getting Better at predicting what is about to hit us. They still dont get it right one 100 of the time, of course, but their accuracy is definitely improved and so has the timeliness of their reports. In fact, these days we are aware not
Technology used to develop daily weather reports. From politics and prose bookstore in washington dc this runs one hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening everyone of the coowner of politics and prose welcome thank you for coming and congratulations on getting here what a great day to have a book about the weather. If yousn have been following the weather you will have noticed at least two things, first is getting weirder and wilder with bigger storms and freezing temperatureses and greater extremes and second, forecasters are Getting Better at predicting what is about to hit us they still dont get it right 100 percent of the time so with the timeliness of their reports. These days not only of one weather model but of multiple ones simulating the atmosphere the north americanri model the european model, and a number of others forecasting not just todays weather or tomorrow that over the next ten days and beyond. Getting interestedlun he wasnt satisfied with the past explanation to
And wilder with bigger storms, hotter and more freezing temperatures and greater extremes at seemingly all times of the year. And second, that forecasters are Getting Better at predicting whats about to hit us. They still dont get it right 100 of the time, of course, but their act rahs is city has definitely accuracy has definitely improved and so has the timelessness of their reports. In fact, these days were aware not only of one weather model, but of multiple ones simulating the future space of the atmosphere. Theres a north american model, the european model, the global one and a number of others, and theyre forecasting not todays weather or tomorrows, but weather over the next ten days and beyond. Andrew blum got interested in this stuff. He wasnt satisfied with the past explanations that attributed the advances in weather science simply to faster supercomputer ands better satellites. Andrews a journalist with a knack for making complex systems accessible as he did in his previous
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