25-11-2019 14:00 via theguardian.com

How a digitised map blew the televised Weather off course

The days are long gone when presenters slapped magnetic clouds on to paper cutouts. And the Weather is worse for itImagine if you could tune into a daily TV show that (more or less) predicts the future, localised (more or less) to your house. We’d all be overnight billionaires like Biff Tannen in Back to the Future Part II. But when said TV show is merely foretelling something as yawnsome as the weather, few care, even though the technology to forecast the weather is … Actually, who
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