How retroreflection changed everything — Why is predicting weather so tricky?
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March 26, 2023

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Driving at night, you might notice stop signs reflect your headlights back at you. It's not because they're made of shiny metal. Stop signs and other road markers are covered in retroreflectors. The technology behind them is simple yet incredible — and it's used for much more than making road signs visible at night.

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The crazy logistics behind weather forecasting

We take the fact that we can know what the weather will be like every day for granted. You can pull out your phone, click the weather app and BAM — it’s all right there. But to make this happen takes some pretty impressive technology and some serious logistics. How does it work?

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