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Hello, welcome to factually, I'm Adam Conover,

and you know, it's a standard joke that you can't trust the weather man right

when local TV anchors finish up their stories about the hero cats or the

recent spade of doorstep package thefts captured on camera You can detect a hint of disbelief

as they turn it over to the weather person, right?

Oh, and here's Tina with the weather, maybe?

I don't know, take a whack.

I mean, come on, everybody knows the weather man's always wrong right? Well actually

that old stereotype just isn't true anymore. There have been incredible

advancements in our ability to accurately predict the weather over the last few decades,

ones that have changed weather science as we know it.

See, as late as the 1970s, weather predictions actually were pretty inaccurate.

Even in the late 70s, attempts to predict huge storms were, quote,

practically forbidden because the science was too weak.

Climate models failed to catch major events, like the President's Day snowstorm of 1979,

which buried D.C. in Baltimore in 20 inches of powder.

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