WEATHER FEATURE
August 1st, 2005
BY MARK ROWEINTRODUCTIONWEATHER forecasting has evolved somewhat beyond the reliance of medieval truisms such as rain on St Swithin's Day meant 40 more days of showers. But better weather forecasts are only any use if we are able to respond to such information accordingly and effectively. The challenge is increasing, as extreme weather events are predicted to get worse as climate change takes place: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has laid out a worse case scenario of a 5.8C rise in global average temperatures by 2100 and an 88cm rise in sea levels ...
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