The recent conference by Louis Bodin, the media meteorologist, was like a scientific delicacy in a region lacking. The large and won over audience would have asked for more!
With a room gauge reached one month before the event, the organizers had reason to rejoice. Rightly so, because no one has held back their pleasure, for this pretty moment of science and exchanges spent in Brottes. This encounter has managed to maintain a human and friendly character, which was also the objective of the service clubs at the origin of the idea.
The icing on the cake
The South Haut-Marne sections of Lyon's Club, Kiwanis, Rotary Club and Cobaty had in addition to this presentation, planned a buffet, which thus gave the opportunity to continue, as desired, exchanges within the public, aware of the challenge climatic and the limits of meteorological science. Another way of extending the subject was proposed by the library In the headlines, with the latest book by Louis Bodin, which he signed with good grace, “we are all weather sensitive”he says, evidence geographical and supporting histories.
A young science
Louis Bodin recalled in the preamble, the ''youth'' of this science. It was only since 1870 that it was decided, in the new Parc Montsouris in Paris, headquarters of the Marine Observatory and the Bureau des Longitudes, to carry out daily measurements of temperature, atmospheric pressure, speed and orientation of the vents and collect them for archiving.
And it was only from this time that the first forecasts were developed and, later, the firsts equations supposed to describe the movements of our atmosphere.
For AssoClimat52, an inspiring meeting. –
“They are charlatans”
They are still imperfect, because they only describe the movements of ideal gases on a perfect globe. Which is far from being the case for our planet…
“For these reasons, asserts Louis Bodin, anyone who claims to predict the weather beyond 5 days with precision geographical smaller than the size of a department is at best a gambler and at worst a charlatan. That’s it… Communication tools modern transmit spectacular climatic events live to all locations on the planet.
Societal impacts
To the point where you might think the sky is falling everywhere at once. Misconception, the Earth has always known such phenomenabut the information spread less quickly. Due to unequal solar illumination between the poles and the equator, the atmosphere experiences permanent convection movements, hot and cold air masses constantly crossing each other. Stirring accentuated by rotation landwhich causes these whirlwinds known as hurricanes. On many other points, Louis Bodin set the record straight. refreshing for neurons!
