QUESTION:
Can scientists use any of the data Pathfinder sent back to predict the
weather on Mars?  If so, is it easier to predict there than on Earth?

ANSWER from Bob Haberle on July 30, 1998:
Weather forecasters on Earth depend on information gathered hourly from many
locations. So it would be very difficult to forecast the weather on another
planet with only one station reporting. However, for the season (summer) and
latitude (about 19 degrees North) that Pathfinder landed in the weather
turned out to be fairly predictable. Temperatures climbed to about 10
degrees F during the day and fell to about -100 degrees F just before dawn.
And this pattern repeated itself every day of the mission (Pathfinder
survived for 83 Mars days). Winds and pressures were also fairly predictable,
but not as much as temperatures.