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World Service,4 mins
How the Covid-19 pandemic has made weather forecasting less accurate
Digital PlanetAvailable for over a year
Aircraft help forecasters gather changes in data such as temperature, humidity and pressure during the course of a flight. Ying Chen, an environmental researcher at Lancaster University in the UK, explains how fewer commercial flights during the pandemic have affected the amount of data gathered by forecasters. (Image: Weather map - 3D rendering, Credit: Getty Images.)
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