– Sorry?
– Easter is almost upon us.
– Of course. Let's hope the weather holds up, but I think the forecast is not so promising.
– Weather forecasters! What do they know?
– Well, unfortunately, one thing they do not know is what the weather will be like tomorrow. But they do their best to predict what will happen. Hence the forecasting part of their job title.
– It's hardly a science, is it?
– I think it is. That's how they do it. By careful scientific observation. And simulations running on supercomputers. Possibly they stick their head out of the window occasionally, just to check they are not wildly off target, but I think that's basically what they do.
– And yet, for all their supercomputers, and, I dare say, algorithms, they can't manage to get Easter to land on the same day each year.
– I'm not sure that is directly related to the weather.
– It probably is: at some deep level, most things are related.
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