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| | WMO Statement |
 | | It requires comprehensive and well maintained meteorological networks, standardization and coordination of exchange of data and products at rapid rates by WMO, and development and application of new observational and modelling techniques and continued development of meteorological science. |
 | | This body of experience, coupled with a robust set of metrics for assessing accuracy means that, in many cases, uncertainty in weather forecasts is well known, and in many cases well understood. |
 | | What should be better understood is that with present (and any foreseeable) future states of the science, some meteorological phenomena will remain inherently unpredictable, and the more extreme the phenomena, the more likely that this will be so. |
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