天氣係每個人都會受影響嘅，但大部分人都唔會理佢，除非有可能或者已經有實際後果，先會覺得好重要。準確嘅天氣預報可以減少啲影響，不過即使係宜家呢啲先進科技，都未必一定準。諗返去冇天氣預報嗰陣（就好似1940年代），就好難想像咩感覺。嗰時候氣象學先至剛開始被承認做科學。好似喺1944年6月，歐洲盟軍喺策劃諾曼第登陸計劃——史上最大規模嘅入侵——時，都要面對冇天氣預報嘅困境。
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Weather is something that affects us all, though it’s also something to which most of us pay little attention unless there are potential or actual consequences at stake; then they often take on paramount importance. The impact can be somewhat ameliorated with an accurate forecast, but that’s often problematic, even with today’s advanced technology. So it can be hard to fathom what it might have been like to predict the weather without it, as was the case in the 1940s, when meteorology was just beginning to come into its own as an accepted science. Such was the case in June 1944, when Allied Forces in Europe were planning the D-Day invasion of France’s Normandy coast, the largest contingent… 原文連結 ↗
