https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=VqtEppZmjfw

After FitzRoy died, there wasn't a scientist in Britain that knew how
to make a weather forecast.

I came across a book about a man who had discovered the method or at
least one that is in use today. The book alleges that treason in the
official British and US weather offices hampered this invigilator of
new ideas.

To this day, there is no record of when meteorologists began to use
the data they kept records of to make forecasts. Why not?
What was the point of collating vast reams of data and not using it?
It just doesn't make sense.

So Because 55,000 US airmen were sent to their deaths unescorted over
enemy territory in droves of aircraft that could not manoeuvre away
from fighter interceptors, I wanted to see to it that the record was
set straight.

So naturally I posted the idea to uk.sci.weather and
sci.military.naval (you'd think they would be at least vaguely
interested wouldn't you?)

I mean, for crying out loud, weather is the be-all and end all of
naval strategy isn't it?

This is what happened:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...cc9d28f58cd97#

What is stored at the moment?

The way that weather model runs fail tells us a great deal about
seismic activity. It would be a shame if the meteorological libraries
around the globe only provided for analysis charts as the forecasts
themselves are more important for earthquake prediction.