Friday, February 4, 2011

Fortune-Telling Via Cyclones

Thankfully Cyclone Yasi caused less havoc than expected, and so you won't hate me for explaining how today we worked out how to use these weather systems to tell fortunes. Our research demonstrates unequivocally that a tropical storm sharing your name will also share personality traits.


Take my dear colleague Mr W. We found in the archives a Typhoon W that meandered around Asia for 22 days without clear direction. Enough said. Our second case study, a Ms S, was clearly named after a small cyclone that spent most of its life hanging around a tiny Indian Ocean island before disappearing. And to prove it beyond doubt, we found a very memorable Hurricane Rob that was blustery, annoyed millions of people all over the place, and ended up dumping water over many of them.

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