Baghdad Bob, now doing weather
Pay no attention to those hailstones falling behind you!
Saturday as I mowed we had a brief toad strangling thunderstorm, sending the dog to hide under the couch (the dog is almost as big as the couch, so this is no mean feat) and the weather map on my phone said ‘Clear and sunny”. it persisted in saying ‘Clear and sunny’ when there were obviously huge thunderheads drifting over my actual house. This morning it shows rain through the area, and the Weather Channel shows “Partly cloudy”.
They’re just guessing, and they’re not even looking out the window to see if their guesses are remotely accurate.
Explains a lot about the global warming bullshit.
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Our NWS forecast for today is 20% chance of showers.
Which makes me wonder if anyone is looking at the radar and the huge rain shield it shows moving in our general direction…
One of the things it reveals about the whole CAGW hoax is how weak the case is.
Those forecasts are made from computer models and take into account higher-resolution data than do the ones generating the famous hockey schtick.
AND…. they may actually be accurate — over a given region. They just fail to take into account (or realize they can’t) the incredible size and — heh — diversity of the atmosphere.
The airport ten miles from you, where the instruments are, may very well have the reported conditions. But… the weather changes not only over time, but over distance.
What a concept!
And, imagine. The CAGW wheeze is based on an ideal network of watch boxes 65 miles on a side, of which fewer than ten percent actually exist and have a reporting baseline longer than a month — and most of those are concentrated in North America and Europe… and NONE over the oceans or the polar regions.
Global my ass!
M
Yesterday afternoon I thought I’d go to the local lake to do battle with the bass, perch and bluegills. I looked out the window, it was overcast but not bad. Checked the weather app on my phone, said it was sunny. Got my stuff together, by the time I got onto my front porch it was starting to rain, and it had that FEEL in the air that it wasn’t just a passing sprinkle (I’m sure you know what I mean by the feel of a rainstorm). Sure enough, it rained pretty hard for the next couple hours, with a few claps of thunder.
Methinks the weather folk ought to stick themselves outside once in a while. Or maybe they shouldn’t have fired the guy with the corn on his toe that hurt when it was going to rain.
Does explain a bit. Since most of the global warming/cooling/climate change crowd are clueless anyway.
It did, in fact, rain here…so the NWS forecast this morning was only 80% off. Rock on, you crazy weathermen.
They can’t tell Me ACCURATELY if it will rain on Tuesday.
They can’t explain why Greenland WAS green and grape vines were growing on Newfoundland when Leif came a-calling.
And Skating on the Thames in the mini ice age.. well they can’r explain that either.
But we am supposed to think they know that people are causing global warming, no wait, climate change?
Delusional twits…..
When I was but a beardless yoot in Hawthorne Elementary Skool in S. Seattle in ’56 we of Mr. Richardson’s 5th grade class made weather instruments of milk cartons, toy balloons, hair, pennies, broom straws and Botch tape. With which we made and recorded measurements of the atmospheric weather conditions on the roof of the building every day right after lunch rain or shine.
For six months our 5th grade prognostications were more accurate than those of the National Weather Service used by the Come Herschel Air Lines flying live persons in and out of Seattle/Tacoma International Airport.
We wrote letters to said Weather Station and were invited to learn why we were wrong. Turns out we din’t have no gummit issue fairy dust sprinkled on us, so our facks were outweighed by gummit facks. Notwithstanding that our unsanctioned 5th grade facks corresponded eezakly with reality and the gummit’s facks din’t.
That was when, at the age of 10 1/2, I started being a Conservative and distrusting anything any Gummit Mouthpiece had to say about anything. That later changed to include acedemics including Hah Skrool Teechers. Thus I only gradulated wit a 3.7 GPA. in ’62. Luckily this was before the renaissance in edumacation when indoctrination overrode instruction.
Gerry N.
Gerry;
I keep ever in the back of my mind an experiment MY 5th-grade science teacher did with a bunsen burner, a gallon gas can, some water, and the cold weather outside. We did a fairly long unit on weather that year — I call it my elementary astrophysics course.
I don’t believe I’ve had to stretch much beyond it all these years later to know the whole CAGW dodge is bull puckey.
M
My uncle, who took his boat onto Lake Michigan often, and so knew what he talked about, said the weather forecast for the immediate area is normally dead naughts on for the next four hours. After that, it was anyone’s guess. And except for the occasional pop-up summer squall, that benchmark holds. So I love it when they give 5 day, then extended forecasts.
Weathermen are up there with funeral home directors, as far as skinning the public legally, in the same league as astrologers and feng shui consultants. My father said only an idiot puts on a ski mask and robs a liquor store for $50 with a gun. The smart man’s get-up is a three piece suit and a fountain pen. Weathermen have their thing.
I remember a story when I was a kid about a local weatherman who read the current official forecast, opened a window and looked around a minute, closed the window and announced “I don’t care what they say, I say it’s gonna snow!”
Oh boy, did it snow.