
Reading the Horizon/Lapham's Quarterly
“For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and the Gulf and Atlantic coasts had come to know the telltale signs of a hurricane’s approach—a shrouded horizon at sunset, humid breezes thick with salt, shorebirds finding safe roost, shifts in gusting winds from east to west.”

On the Great and Terrible Hurricane of 1938 | Lit Hub
“Forecasts possess no intrinsic value. They acquire value through their ability to influence the decisions made by users of the forecasts”.
Allan H. Murphy, Wea. Forecasting (1993) 8 (2): 281–293.