Alternative Weather Forecasts and Hurricane Season 2007

From alternative music and media to alternativeand discoverer of the planetary laws of motion,
medicine, we're increasingly offered nontraditionalexperimented with what today would be
replacements to mainstream methods, institutionsconsidered an alternative forecast method that
and practices. Although conventional approachesmade long-range weather forecasts possible.
serve a purpose, growing awareness of theirKepler observed that the angular relationships
limitations and flaws impel men to explore alongamong the planets coincided with the formation of
the fringe for new, and in some cases, ancientweather systems here on Earth that, in turn,
solutions.produced storms, droughts, floods, etc. His first
So why not alternative weather forecasts?brush with fame came not because of his
Present day orthodox forecast techniques lackbreakthrough regarding the planetary laws of
the ability to accurately predict the weathermotion but because of his accurate long-range
beyond three or four days. Even with theweather forecast of the severe winter that put
assistance of the largest weather computer in theStyermark, Germany on ice in 1593. Since the
world, whose lightning-fast calculations approachplanets move in repetitive cycles that can be
about 400 million per second, the results of itsknown beforehand, he reasoned, the weather
three-day forecasts are speculative; its six toinduced by them can also be known beforehand.
seven day forecasts are worthless. According toWe can all see the advantages that such
conventional weather forecasters, this is due topredictions could have. Accurate long-range
the complexity of atmospheric forces andweather forecasts would bring enormous benefits
processes.to the weather derivatives market, agriculture,
What some scientists see as complexity,transportation, construction, and other industries,
however, might actually be viewed as simplicitynot to mention the lives that could be saved
when the frame of reference is changed.through advance knowledge of severe weather
Johannes Kepler, the 17th century astronomerconditions.