In 2006, a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) predicted that the approaching solar maximum would be the most intense in fifty years.
Maximum delays of more than three hours were predicted for some flights to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest airport as measured by the number of passengers who pass through it.
Angela Caputo, for example, killed herself in an unimaginable manner: no one who had read her poems, with their charged and ambivalently childlike atmosphere, could have predicted such an atrocious death, stage-managed down to the finest detail for maximum terrifying effect.