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Weather forecasting is about to get even better

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imageThis doesn't happen very often. But the Bureau of Meteorology is getting much better at predicting when it will.AAP Image/NEWZULU/BILL SHRAPNEL

While some people might still joke about the reliability of weather forecasts, meteorologists are likely to nominate weather prediction as one of the great success stories of modern science – a...

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