"Until the 1960s, British law decreed that someone found guilty of trying to predict the weather could be burned at the stake.
In the 1990s, the Taliban banned weather forecasting in Afghanistan, calling it sorcery.
Thailand's chief meteorologist was fired for failing to predict the 2004 tsunami. Ironically, the country's previous top weatherman had been fired six years earlier for warning that the southwest coast might face a deadly tsunami.
In 1996, Peruvian meteorologist Francisco Arias Olivera was hanged from a tree by an angry mob after a flash flood killed 17 people. He had predicted 50 millimetres of rain in 24 hours but the town was bombarded with 480 in 12 hours."
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