Meteorological Data Quotes

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

In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.

I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.

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.

When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

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'm practical, very data-driven, and process-oriented. If I look at a radar and see a giant green blob coming toward me, I'm thinking it's probably going to snow.