It may seem a bit odd to find a political analysis piece authored by a professional meteorologist. After all, what could politics and the weather have in common that could give us insight on one or the other? Certainly, we’re all aware that both topics serve as excellent conversation pieces, but a closer inspection finds much more in common between a Presidential campaign and a blockbuster storm than one may imagine: guessed at by many, but mastered by few; behaving as predicted much of the time, but dishing out major surprises without warning; available statistical guidance and numerical models designed to guide, but not forecast; and a complex network of interactions that is often over-simplified to draw conclusions that were never meant to be reached on limited data...
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