On Saturday afternoon, October 20, we were enjoying a particularly brisk and breezy autumn day. It was a partly cloudy day, with blue sky peeking out between bits of fluffy clouds. The weather report tells us that the wind is out of the northwest at 29 mph...
But: It started raining at about 11:30 or so yesterday morning, and continued until some time into the wee hours of this morning. There was occasional thunder and lightening, but the real player in yesterday's weather was the wind and rain. The continuous rain paired itself with an unusual East by Northeasterly wind that gusted more or less constantly throughout the day and night, striking the backside of the house where the kitchen sits.
There's a "Walking Dead" vibe floating in "The Mist." As with that AMC zombie show, here we have a mixed-up melange of ordinary people who find themselves trapped in a familiar place turned deadly, fighting an unnatural enemy they don't really understand. Some may find their inner Daryl Dixon or Rick Grimes and emerge as fighters or leaders. Others seem likely to be driven mad by the horrors -- previews reveal Frances Conroy's character is headed that way, and after an incident in the first episode, it's tough to blame her.
In simpler language, he theorized that weather prediction models are inaccurate because knowing the precise starting conditions is impossible, and a tiny change can throw off the results. To make the concept understandable to non-scientific audiences, Lorenz began to use the butterfly analogy.
During the early days of computers, many people believed they would enable us to understand complex systems and make accurate predictions. People had been slaves to weather for millennia, and now they wanted to take control. With one innocent mistake, Lorenz shook the forecasting world, sending ripples which (appropriately) spread far beyond meteorology.
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