Why can’t computers predict the weather far into the future?

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I guess I’m assuming.. Bare bones, everything out there has a scientific reason for acting the way it does. Wind, humidity, temperature, yadda yadda. What randomness is preventing us from entering all the values into a computer program, hitting fast foward, and seeing close to exactly how things will be far down the road?

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>everything out there has a scientific reason for acting the way it does.

We’re still talking about predicting the movements of billions upon billions of molecules churning in the atmosphere. Even the best computer model is only a vague approximation of this process; there is no way to perfectly simulate something this complex. It’s like trying to accurately shoot at a target that keeps getting moved further back, until it’s miles away; after a few days it becomes impossible to predict with any accuracy.

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