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A Principal Meteo Officer at the Meteorological Agency has resorted to biblical interpretations to explain why a major announcement of storm by the Agency failed to materialize. Muller Tsatsu Siameh charged critics of the Agency to carefully read Luke Chapter 12:54 and be abreast with the genesis of weather forecasts and why some weather predictions do not happen. The Agency has come under a barrage of criticisms following a prediction of a severe rainstorm, Monday morning but which never materialized. Patrick Lamptey, an officer at the Agency predicted what he described as a severe storm that was to hit the southern sector. �We are having a thunder storm system that is moving from the East into the country. It is going to affect parts of the Southern part. That is the eastern coast, the southern part of the Eastern Region and most parts of the Volta Region. It will be accompanied by high winds." He said the storm was moving slowly which meant it will fall at a particular area for a long time. He said where there are drainage problems there are bound to be floods with bill boards, roofs and other things expected to be destroyed as a result. The storm was expected between 8 am-10 am. As at 6 pm residents especially in Accra were yet to witness the storm. Some of them were hugely disappointed with what they described as a fiasco of a rainstorm prediction. Some even accused the Agency of telling outright lies. But Tsatsu Siameh told Joy News the public got it all wrong. �It is a prediction. It is forecast and if you read Luke Chapter 12:54 Jesus Christ said it. He said you people you look to the West and you see clouds gathering and you say it will shower and it does shower and you look to the west and you see winds blowing and you say today it will be sunny. That is forecast, it happens. Jesus Christ came and met it and we have developed these things into mathematics and Physics to follow nature and predict it with the probability of failure of success," he explained. He said residents in Ada and Keta cannot say the prediction was a fiasco, adding there was the manifestation of their prediction in those areas.