Listen to a Podcast About Meteorology

Understand the science of weather — atmospheric dynamics, storm formation, climate modeling, forecasting technology, and how extreme weather events are intensifying in a warming world.

Modern numerical weather prediction was pioneered by Lewis Fry Richardson in 1922, who calculated a 6-hour forecast by hand that took six weeks — today's supercomputers at agencies like ECMWF process over 800 billion observations daily to produce forecasts. A 5-day weather forecast today is as accurate as a 1-day forecast was in 1980, according to the WMO, though the chaotic nature of the atmosphere means useful forecasting beyond about 10 days remains fundamentally limited. The Fujita Scale, developed by Ted Fujita at the University of Chicago in 1971 and enhanced to the EF scale in 2007, classifies tornado intensity from EF0 to EF5, with EF5 tornadoes producing winds exceeding 322 km/h.

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