Modise Wiston
P/Bag UB00704, Gaborone
Botswana
Research Article
Weather Forecasting: From the Early Weather Wizards to Modern-day Weather Predictions
Author(s): Modise Wiston and Mphale KMModise Wiston and Mphale KM
Weather forecasting is one the important science applications in our day-to-day planning activities. This is one prominent application that has played a significant role to humankind from long way back. Wherever humans have settled around the world, weather forecasting has always been part of their life for man has always been actively involved in their surroundings. Early humankind relied on their philosophical experience and other reoccurring weather phenomena to predict the weather and infer what was coming their way. This was the knowledge gathered over many years of observations and passed from one generation to another. However, it became evident that natural knowledge was inadequate to precisely gauge the atmospheric changes; a growing number of scientists realised the need for more advanced and better ways of predicting weather. Numerical weather prediction (NWP) is one of the mo.. View More»
