http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2011/06/22/even-everyday-weather-could-pack-a-485-billion-punch/ Global environmental challenges Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:56:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2011/06/22/even-everyday-weather-could-pack-a-485-billion-punch/comment-page-1/#comment-348138 ChrisOrr Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:57:30 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/?p=19927#comment-348138 I wrote about this - without hard economic numbers -- in 2004, an article that I see is still circulating the web. I lecture on it whenever I get a chance. As a meteorologist for some 30+ years, I can safely say the tools we have to make weather forecasts are so much better than when I started. The tools could be better, but we really need better weather forecasters. Bad weather forecasts and bad use of weather forecasts cost the economy dearly. Ask any resident along the Missouri River (and soon the lower Mississippi River). I wrote about this – without hard economic numbers — in 2004, an article that I see is still circulating the web. I lecture on it whenever I get a chance. As a meteorologist for some 30+ years, I can safely say the tools we have to make weather forecasts are so much better than when I started. The tools could be better, but we really need better weather forecasters. Bad weather forecasts and bad use of weather forecasts cost the economy dearly. Ask any resident along the Missouri River (and soon the lower Mississippi River).

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