Can it be
that the weatherdrones just don’t have any damned idea at all what the hell they’re talking about? Yes, yes, I think that is so. I get a more accurate weather report sticking my damned head outside than I have gotten from any weather source for the whole summer.
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My joints tell me more about the weather than the meteorologists do.
I have my own weather station. I have a Galilleo thermometer (2, in fact), a water barometer, a weathervane w/cups, and a LaCrosse radio-controlled weather station linked to Colorado Springs by satellite. Besides these sweet toys, I have eyes, skin, and creaking joints. Who needs TWC? (except for comedy relief. Naturally, I have to watch with the sound off, or I’d kill my lovely 42″ flat-panel).
If it tells you anything, they’re considered “good” when they’re right 50% of the time…
I’ve got a weather rock. Thing is right 100% of the time. Course there is not much lead time with the thing, but I can cope.
The weather models we have now are good for about 6-10 hours at best. Within that time frame–and given ACCURATE data regarding current conditions–they do a pretty good job of predicting the weather.
Beyond that, it’s a guessing game. It’s a guessing game that’s informed by statistics (“75% of the time in the past, when X was true, Y was true twelve hours later”) but it’s still a guessing game.
On the upside many of these talking weather girls have excellent breasts. Forecast for tonight? Drippy.
Yeah, always been a big fan of that Nicole Mitchell. Her keister, anyway- first time I actually lkooked at her face, I was a bit taken aback. I thought she married that prince Wingnuthead.
Skilling was spot-on for today, over 24 hours ago. He said we wouldn’t get anything (Kane County), and we didn’t. Not sure who you are watching.
I feel kinda sorry for our weather guy. Hr’s getting actual hate mail from farmers because they only got 2-3 inches of rain instead of the “possible” four he estimated. I gotta back him up a little here. It would be difficult to know exactly how a weather system is going to act after passing through two whole states and a small mountain range. Brandon does a pretty good job.
Few years back one of the weather weenies in OKC had a challenge going, “If we’re off on temperature by more than ‘x’ degrees and you call us, we’ll pay you $50!” May have been 100, can’t remember for sure. That lasted about a week or so, because it cost the station so much money.
Growing up in Florida, we had a saying that I believe still applies. There are only two kinds of people that predict the weather, damned fools and damned Yankees. I think I was 12 or 13 before i realized that damned Yankee is two words.