WEATHER HEALTH FEATURE
August 1st, 2005
BY MARK ROWEWEATHER forecasters have always come in for criticism but the reality is that today's forecasts are more reliable than ever, and predictions are just as accurate for five days ahead as they were for one day ahead even just a decade ago. This is proving to be enormously helpful for health services: while some general weather-related conditions have long been acknowledged - such as that cold weather brings more respiratory diseases - new predictive technology pioneered by Britain's Met Office (Met for Meteorological, of course) means that forecasting ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.