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Your Weather Forecasts Are About to Get a Lot Less Accurate

Meteorologist Laurent Moullet prepares to launch a weather balloon.Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Did you check the weather forecast today?

Whether it was on your phone, the five-day outlook in your newspaper, or your friendly TV meteorologist, that forecast was built on a massive government-run network of sensors and computers that get the weather right more often than not while rarely getting the attention they deserve. And now that system is being taken apart, piece by piece.

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