• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    Also weather wasn’t part of news (as in published news) at first, unless they were reporting what it was currently doing right now, because it predated forecasting by about 300 years.

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      4 months ago

      Oh now, we’ve been predicting the weather far longer than you imagine. We just haven’t been very good at it until fairly recently.