5 – Do you believe in meteorological predictions?

I believe that people make them and that they exist.

Some of them, I would go so far as to say, are trustworthy, offering that long sought peek into the future. Others are not. By what wisdom ought we to tell them apart. Might one be wise in finding solace in a pleasing fiction that Christmases will all be white, that summer holidays will be cloudless, still, dry. That crops will thrive beneath the benevolent sun and generous rains. That lightning and thunder will visit only those whom it delights, nor giant hail shatter anything but records. That floods, tornadoes, tempests will happen far away robbing us only of copper change in charity shop boxes or, if near, confined within the safe borders of the screen. That a warmer world will be universally a better one, if it ever happens.