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11987年10月15日,星期四,一场飓风横扫了英国南部的广大地区。自1703年以来,英国还没有遭受过如此强劲的风暴的袭击。气象部门没能预报出这场飓风,它把飓风的经过路径定在向东80英里进入北海。伦敦的气象中心装备了当时英国最快的计算机赛博205,它能够每秒钟做4亿次运算。“遗憾的是事情出了差错”,气象部门的发言人事后承认。一位预报人员回忆道:“这个星期的一开始它是对的,星期二在正确的路
On Thursday, October 15, 11987, a hurricane swept through much of southern England. Britain has not been hit by such a storming storm since 1703. The meteorological department failed to predict the hurricane, which set the course of the hurricane 80 miles eastward into the North Sea. The Meteorological Center in London was equipped with Cybernaut 205, the fastest computer in the country at the time, capable of 400 million operations per second. “Unfortunately, something went wrong,” a meteorological department spokesman later admitted. A forecaster recalled: "It was right from the beginning of the week, on the right path on Tuesday