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tion Agency or subject to suits for “malpractice” or whether they will have to restrict their terms and measures of weather and its effects to accepted government standards or standards already accepted, although ill defined, with a reasonable margin for error.
Understanding the weather and interpreting the forecasts may become even more difficult than is now the case. One has to distinguish between temperature measurements in Centigrade and Fahrenheit, with the added factor of wind-chill. One can not get a simple projection of say an inch of rain for tomorrow, but has to give thought to a twenty percent chance, or a fifty per cent chance, that there will be any rain. One must know that “heavy snow” is not necessarily heavy, but likely to be deep, and light snow is not in fact “light", but small in volume. The “discomfort index”, a mathematical combination of temperature and humidity and applicable to government employees in non-air conditioned buildings, triggering at the critical point the release of those employees, may not be recognized in the private sector. Air quality indexes and the absoluteness of the pollen. count, already under chal- * lenge, may be distabilized in the new free market weather reading and interpreting. And a new measure, being talked about by the U.S. Weather Bureau, a measure of the stress factor in the weather, may never be tested..
All of which may argue for a return of the Farmers’ Almanac, as the best source of weather information, at least, or especially for Rappahannock County.
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