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
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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