Met Office CIO Charles Ewen: "If I've learned one thing, it's to be very cautious about predicting the future"

Tom Allen
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Ewen leads IT at the Met Office, and ironically acknowledges that there will always be a number of elements we can neither control or predict

The Met Office is the UK's national weather service, and expert in forecasting change. The organisation invests heavily in simulation and emulation, and has to look beyond short-term weather events...

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