The death toll from Wednesday's storms seems out of a bygone era, before Doppler radar and pinpoint satellite forecasts were around to warn communities of severe weather.
Each May, the weather forecast pinpoints the optimal dates for a summit thrust.
But I also got a few replies wondering how to reconcile these findings against the claims, made with some frequency by political scientists, that presidential elections can be forecast with pinpoint accuracy provided that you know the economic fundamentals.
The government relies on temperature forecasts to pinpoint when blossoms will appear each spring, but climate change has made that increasingly difficult.
Instead of organizing and sifting through the terabytes of data across the organization, it quickly identified a relatively small number of key data needs, created a customer sample, then used analytic algorithms to forecast attrition probabilities, pinpoint at-risk customers and recommend precise retention strategies.
Retailers, for example, use data mining to pinpoint consumer tastes and purchasing patterns to forecast new trends.
Though the team has been unable to identify exactly where the energized particles from the solar wind collide with the Earth's atmosphere, they're hopeful that further research may pinpoint the specific area and lead to improved storm forecasting.
While it is difficult to pinpoint the exact causes for daily market moves, some analysts pointed to weather forecasts predicting that the tropical storm hitting the coast of Texas would bypass major drilling platforms and refineries.
Held every decade since 1961, this conference aims to pinpoint the key concerns facing a rapidly growing demographic of older people, while forecasting the aging landscape for the next 10 years.
It's difficult to pinpoint within that window, but we seem to be on our way to reaching the forecast snow accumulations however early or late that changeover occurs.
We also wanted to pinpoint markets where home buying is a smart investment, so we factored in the five-year forecast in the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index from Moody's Economy.com.com
