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How the Covid-19 pandemic has made weather forecasting less accurate

Aircraft help forecasters gather changes in data such as temperature, humidity and pressure during the course of a flight. Ying Chen, an environmental researcher at Lancaster University in the UK, explains how fewer commercial flights during the pandemic have affected the amount of data gathered by forecasters.

(Image: Weather map - 3D rendering, Credit: Getty Images.)

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