Dear Meteorologists,

We like to look down our noses at the past. We think we’re so much smarter than people used to be back then. Back when they’d put leeches on their owies and base their weather predictions on folk sayings about the color of the sky. We with our satellites and radar and high tech weather instruments.

But the heart of science has always been looking and observing, not the fancy gadgets we do it with. Sure, our forecasts are much better now, but it’s not because we’ve done something different. It’s because we’ve gotten better and more organized at that same old human impulse: to see the world, to know the world, and to share our knowledge of it.

And future generations will get even better at it. And they’ll look down their noses at us, fools that we are.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt