Weather prediction, which we take for granted, is in itself a miracle.
Before regular weather prediction, many more people died from weather.
I read a book recently about the Childrens’ Blizzard of 1888 – a particularly severe and fast-moving blizzard on the Plains.
It’s called the Childrens’ Blizzard because many of the hundreds of people who died in the blizzard were children walking home from school. The day started as a mild, sunny day, their parents sent them off to school (often they had to walk many miles) without hats, coats and mittens. The blizzard moved in so quickly that they died on the walk home from school.
This one event slowed the western expansion of America and was further impetus for the Army Signal Corps (the original scientific weather forecasters) to improve the prediction of severe weather.