The Importance of More Time

In the early 1960s, five-day forecasts from the U.S. Weather Bureau were only 55% to 60% accurate. That all changed when a weather satellite was launched by NASA and sent back more than 19,000 pictures from space. Meteorologists could now tell what was happening weather-wise around the world - and feed that information into computer models to predict what would happen next. A five-day forecast today is accurate about 90% of the time.