How Weather Prediction Became a Science

Weather prediction started as a physicist's dream in 1904, became a hand-computed nightmare in the 1920s, and finally worked on ENIAC in 1950. This episode traces the full arc: Bjerknes's equations, Richardson's forecast factory, the discovery of chaos, ensemble forecasting, and the billion-dollar decisions that depend on getting the forecast right — aviation fuel, shipping routes, agriculture, and grid balancing. Then we turn to what machine learning is doing in the space, the new learned global forecasters, and why weather and climate are fundamentally different problems that people keep confusing. Episode #226980 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/226980