Snowpocalypse: February 2021

Jeffrey L. Taylor

June 9, 2024

Prediction is really hard,
especially about the future.
— Yogi Berra

Today it is sunny with highs
predicted in the low 80s.  A week
from today, the predicted low
is the low 20s.  It will actually be
the low single digits.
Texas is not prepared for
an International Falls, Minnesota
winter.

Weather prediction is based
on the past, which is rapidly
changing in the rearview mirror.
Can scientists predict the direction
of climate change accurately enough
to track the New Normal?

The last 400 years’ temperature rise
is not unprecedented.  It’s happened before,
but over ten thousand years.  Accurately predicting
what has not happened before will require
numerous mid-course corrections.

Jeffrey L. Taylor is a retired Software Engineer.  Around 1990, poems started holding his sleep hostage.  He has been published in The Perch, California Quarterly, Texas Poetry Calendar, and Texas Poetry Assignment.