Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is angry. So angry that he wants to fine the weather service when its forecasts are inaccurate. At least now it’s just a fine, and not Siberia. The head of the city’s weather forecasting service had a good response, though:
“Meteorology is a science, but meteorologists never claim a 100 percent accurate forecast,” Alexei Lyakhov, head of the weather bureau, said in an interview. “Punishing weather forecasters is not happening anywhere else in the world, but maybe we should think about it. It’s worth considering this idea of fining us if we also get bonuses when we get it right. And we get it right 90 to 99 percent of the time.”