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IT has been well said by Bonacina1 that everything which happens to, or in, the atmosphere, affects its subsequent behaviour. In other words, there is a “memory” in the atmosphere, probably such that an anomaly produced at one time may lead to a similar, or a related, anomaly being restored in the future. It is known that although some factors can be neglected for short range forecasting, they become progressively more important in the longer range. These factors are unknown, although most meteorologists would probably agree with Namias2 that two of the most important must be extraterrestrial events, such as variations in solar activity, and variations in the character of the Earth's surface.
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GREEN, F. The February–June weather relationship in north-west Europe. Nature 253, 522–523 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/253522a0
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