Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / September 2005

From 2001
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00060286-CB58-1315-8B5883414B7F0000

 URGENT - Katrina Relief
Please contact any military establishments in your area and ask them to
pass this message "up their chain of command":
"Suggest that helecopters be used to drop shipments of food and

    I watch weather via www.wunderground.com and in the most, the
information is acquired from metars which are quite understandable and of
course right. But some times it takes information from totally confusing
reports which consist of the word aaxx and a few five-digit ...

how important is "cloud cover" data, either to forcasters, or to
data-users?
would higher-accuracy reporting make a big difference to anyone?
Or would the money be better spent elsewhere?