"Specific severe weather forecasting more than days in advance is little more than guessing. ... There are simply too many small-scale variables involved," says the Storm Prediction Center's website.
via www.dispatch.com
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May 24, 2011
And yet for some reason we put some level of credence on long-term hurricane forecasts
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