The economic and political importance of monitoring the weather — or at least the effects of weather — was clear to the ancient Egyptians. They came up with the “nilometer,” a device measuring Nile River flooding that could predict agricultural (and thus tax) yields. It also was likely clear to foreign intelligence agents breaching Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology in 2015 (China denied any involvement).
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