Kenneth Arrow Quotes

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The general public still expects a lot more forecasting accuracy than any of us can deliver.

Meteorologists don't use a script, and most create their own graphics and certainly put together their own forecasts. Most of us went to school to become scientists - at least I did - and studied thermodynamics, physics, and tons of calculus to take this young science to the next level. Our accuracy is amazing and will only continue to improve.

I started storm-chasing at a young age.

I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.