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AFTER nine years of publication there has been considerable criticism of the usefulness and accuracy of long range weather forecasts. Gordon1 has suggested that the forecasts have not yet attained a practical or economical degree of usefulness, and that advance computer technology and statistical power will not improve their accuracy unless a breakthrough in ideas is achieved. Existing methods are broadly based on an analogue or matching technique in which overall weather circulations of a particular month for many decades in the past are compared with those of the month preceding that for which the forecast is to be made.
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GORDON, A. Accuracy of weather forecasts. Nature 252, 294–295 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252294a0
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