> A question: how has the accuracy of weather prediction improved overall? Here is a recent New York Times article on that topic, with emphasis on hurricane pr

> A question: how has the accuracy of weather prediction improved overall? Here is a recent New York Times article on that topic, with emphasis on hurricane prediction: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/upshot/hurricane-joaquin-forecast-european-model-leads-pack-again.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/upshot/hurricane-joaquin-f... "Over the last few decades, faster computers, superior models and new data have allowed all weather forecasting to improve, by a lot. But the United States hasn’t quite matched that effort. It didn’t invest in computing power and models that kept up with the potential for better forecasts."