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• How River Flood Forecasts Work — and What the Flow Number Means
  "290 m³/s, at the 91st percentile of the past year" is a sentence that can decide whether you move a car to higher ground. A guide to discharge, river gauges, and satellite flood models.
• How a Weather Forecast Is Made — From Balloon to Supercomputer
  A forecast is a physics experiment the size of a planet: millions of measurements, one impossible equation, and a supercomputer that runs the atmosphere forward before the atmosphere gets there. Here is the full assembly line behind tomorrow's "70% chance of rain," and why it is both better than you think and never perfect.