Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:00:46 +0000 UPND President Hichilema Hakainde yesterday attributed the current crop failure arising from rain deficit, to poor planning by the Patriotic Front, which he said had no leadership, because it failed to invest in sophisticated weather forecasting equipment that would have averted the situation, but instead in roads where money was stolen. Once in power, he said, the UPND would invest in such sophisticated equipment that would forecast weather one year in advance accurately. HH is lying No such accurate forecast exists. Chuck Doswell a research meteorologist since the mid-1970s says: Weather forecasts are never perfect and it’s unrealistic to expect them ever to be. Furthermore, the weather can vary over relatively small areas, so a forecast that’s reasonably close in one part of a city may be much less accurate in another part. If we assume some sort of “tolerance” on the accuracy (say, having the forecast high […]
