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Weather forecasters would not have failed to predict 1987's Great Storm and warn people about the dangers if it happened today, the Met Office in Exeter said yesterday.
Technological improvements - including computers which are several hundred times more powerful than those used in 1987 - would make it "highly likely" the storm would have been predicted, chief meteorologist Ewen McCallum said.See the full content of this document
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We'd Spot Great Storm If It Happened Today
And scientists have since learned about the phenomenon which caused the devastating winds - a "sting jet" of high...
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