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Predicting the Weather
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     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   5.07

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     challenging words:    former, meteorologists, easily, steer, accurate, knowledge, speed, direction, study, important, plan, caption, pressure, size, suit, world
     content words:    Bob Sheets, National Hurricane Center

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Predicting the Weather
By Kathleen W. Redman 		  
1     Caption: Bob Sheets, a former meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center
 
2     Is it warm outside right now, or is it cold? Is it raining or snowing? Those are questions you can answer easily, right? All you have to do is go outside and see. But what if you were asked if it would rain tomorrow?
 
3     People have been trying to predict the weather for a very long time. There have been many different ways of predicting. Some are very good, and some are just plain wrong. Do you think you need to know what the weather will be tomorrow?

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