Computer weather forecasts?
In the USSR as in the west, the possible use of electronic computers for weather forecasting has attracted considerable attention from both scientists and the public. In particular, it seems that the Russians have made considerable progress towards a reasonably successful prediction of a weather map 24 hours in advance.
The atmospheric pressure systems revealed in a weather map are too complicated for mathematical analysis, so that changes in them – which are closely connected with changes in the weather – must at present be forecast by guesswork backed by experience of similar weather systems in the past.
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