Posted AT 9:17 PM EDT on 27/12/06
Investment advice is blowing in the wind
Evelyn Browning-Garriss is a weather whisperer who advises everyone from Texas cattle raisers to vineyards and Canadian banks about what the coming season will bring.
Guessing even tomorrow's weather is tricky, but the New Mexico climatologist's long-term forecasts are right on the money, her clients say.
Take last spring, when just about everyone figured another wild hurricane season would propel oil and natural gas prices to records.
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