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How do weather forecasters decide how bad a storm is?

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How do forecasters decide if a storm is to be described as severe or hazardous; or a day is breezy or brisk? Laurie Taylor explores a scientific art form rooted in unpredictability, talking to Phaedra Daipha, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, who spent years immersing herself in a regional office of the National Weather Service in America. First broadcast on Thinking Allowed, 10 February 2016.

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