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World Service,3 mins

Forecasting the weather 'a year in advance'

World Update

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The Met Office (Britain's national weather service) uses a new supercomputer to crunch weather data to predict winter storms a year in advance. Dr Nick Dunstone told Dan Damon that the new computer enables climate scientists to produce a more complex weather model. (Photo :NASA image of Typhoon Songda from October 11, 2016; Credit: AFP / Getty Images)

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