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National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Vice Chief Tells Air Force Staff to `Fix the Weather' Although the Air Force has some of the most sophisticated weaponry ever made, it can't battle the weather. The idea is to get weather information instantly fed into command-and-control systems so planners can make decisions based on accurate up-to-dater data.
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IEEE Spectrum August 2006	Modeling Toward Accurate Storm Forecasting For the time being, getting the weather right will still require a large dose of good fortune. But continued improvements in our weather predicting capabilities will eventually take the guessing out of storm prediction and bring us to the moment when wagering on the weather will be a safe bet indeed.
Science News December 20, 2003	Seasonal Weather The Aboriginal people of Australia had their own way of defining the seasons, based on local weather patterns. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has created a Web site that illustrates several of these seasonal weather calendars, established thousands of years ago.
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