I’m reading Bob Ryan’s 2002 Almanac which has on front cover”Weather Forecasting in 2025”. I will enter some excerpts later
it is disheartening to read the great hope for accuracy that he foresaw and hoped for. 90% accuracy day 5 and in. Not even close to reality. I would estimate if the dozen or so things specifically identified as likely occurring by now, about one third have come to fruition. The idea that high tech satellites could get start snd stop times down to one hour and accumulations within 5-10% error margins just hadn’t happened. I sense he felt wholesale technological advancements and revolutions would occur. That failed also