NICK EICHER, HOST: Even with today’s technology, trying to predict the weather is always an imprecise science.

That’s what two currently unemployed Hungarian weather forecasters understand very well.

Saturday’s government was planning what it called “Europe’s biggest fireworks display” along the Danube last Saturday.

About 40,000 fireworks have been locked and loaded. But the National Weather Service warned of approaching extreme weather and postponed the event several hours earlier.

But then no storm appeared. The capital is completely missing.

This enraged the government, and officials fired the director and deputy director of the country’s meteorological agency.

The government now wants to hold a fireworks display this Saturday. And good news for the remaining weather service staff. There is no rain in the weather forecast.

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