August 10, 2007
'Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction'
Bob Dylan aside, in modern life we do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. So we check a newspaper or Web site, listen to the radio, or watch as TV personalities point at moving blotches and extol the Doppler radar. But what we tend to ignore, says Gary Alan Fine, are the people behind much of the daily "weather knowledge" in the United States: the "operational meteorologists" of the National Weather Service.
That largely invisible work force is Mr. Fine's subject in
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