The best weather forecaster can take the guidance that the computer provides and shape it into a message with meaning and relevance. With more and more data being disgorged by more and more computers the human with talent for turning data into information will be needed more not less. There is a tiny word that passes across our lips with increasing frequency at this time of year. Just think what the mere mention of that word can do. It impels shoppers to crowd the aisles of the local grocery in search of essential supplies.
Children smile at the possibilities for fun.
Parents frown at the likelihood of a tough tomorrow just because the flakes may fly. In a world increasingly dominated by streams of bits and bytes carrying the lifeblood of the communications age, there are some who say that the meteorologists who wag their tongues and flail their arms in a front of a kaleidoscope of digitally enhanced weather maps on television are a dying breed. But, alas I don't think the weather people are going away anytime soon. Of course, there will be those that use the new technology to by-pass the sometimes oppressive clutter of the weather on television. I do think this, however, that the meteorologists who eliminate the noise and the hype from the presentation will seem like an comforting island in a storm-tossed ocean if informations.