IN BELGIUM recently a tourism company announced that it intends to file a lawsuit against weather forecasters, meteorologists. it seems that inclement weather was predicted, tourism dropped dramatically, and then the forecast turned out to be wrong, and the weather was beautiful.
If you were to hear this true story without being told that it happened in europe, you would assume that it happened in america, which never met a lawsuit it didn't like. The good money says that the lawsuit will go nowhere.
You would think that by now it would happen nowhere, that legal precedent would long ago have established the principle that weather forecasters cannot be sued for being wrong. Otherwise, why would anyone pursue a career in meteorology? The science of forecasting the weather, which has improved tremendously over the past few decades, and is so valuable to almost everyone, would vanish.
There will quite likely come a time when the weather is predictable down to the last rain drop. Its a matter of accumulating enough data and having enough computer power to process it.
and when that day comes, maybe the law suits will stop, and weathermen can stop paying exorbitant retainers to high priced lawyers.
Bb
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