Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Divining the Weather, With Methods Old and New



Working from desk space carved out of the book clutter of a brick row house here in Emmitsburg, about a mile south of the Pennsylvania line, Mr. O’Toole endeavors to divine the weather as much as 18 months in advance. He does so with a conjurer’s brew of age-old wisdom and 21st-century technology that includes a range of tools, from a software program of astronomical data produced by the United States Naval Observatory to the meticulous tracking — through some 30 computer programs he has written — of all things lunar.

Website: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/us/for-40-years-predicting-weather-for-grubers-almanack.html

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