Boston Globe: It's cold comforT, perhaps, but one of the few bits of good news during this snowy season is the accuracy of weather forecasting. It's easy to take the US weather satellites overhead for granted, but predicting storms accurately can be a matter of life and death. Seventy-six years ago, more than 600 people throughout the region died when the Great Hurricane of 1938 cut an unexpectedly destructive swath from New York to New England. Meteorologists agree that modern forecasts reduce casualties by providing...