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Japan Plans 30-Year Supercomputer Forecasts

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-do-much-worse-than-what-we-have-now dept.

BaltikaTroika writes "According to a ministry representative, 'Japan is planning ultra long-range 30-year weather forecasts that will predict typhoons, storms, blizzards, droughts and other inclement weather.' Maybe they should tell their secret to my local weatherman, who usually can't even get tomorrow's weather right. Whatever happened to chaos?"

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  1. Re:Chaos? by neonprimetime · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Early warning could enable the government to allocate money and resources to potential disaster areas before disaster strikes.

    Now this would be total chaos. WTF are they thinking? Oh ... the supercomputer says we're going to get hit with a Tsunami in 2024, oh please oh please government start giving us money now so we can squander it early!

  2. Yes another person by sholden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who can't see that climate and weather are two different things.

  3. Re:Useless indeed by mrxak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All it takes is one large volcano to erupt and it'll throw off all your predictions. There are plenty of factors involved with the weather outside of normal weather-type things.

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    -mrxak
    Onions Will Kill You
  4. Re:Actually Useful by lawpoop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "...you can't get much better than climatology once you go 2 weeks out."

    I heard a great quote somewhere along the line: "It isn't decided that far in advance".

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    Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
    -- Pablo Picasso