I rode my bicycle to the gym this morning, and it was very cold outside, around 15F. But while I was working out I saw a local TV forecast of 60F for the afternoon.
This created a dilemma for riding to work, balancing being underdressed in the morning vs. overdressed in the afternoon. I guessed wrong – temperature at 1:40 pm is only 36F. The weather experts missed the forecast by more than twenty degrees.
Fooled again, Steve! And to top it off, the weather-caster still gets paid regardless of success.
Imagine if a forecast could only be announced if the forecaster had purchased weather-futures shares [heh, heh!]
Intentions don’t count – – only results matter!
Yea, and it looks like I am going to be freezing my ass off again at my kid’s soccer game this weekend.
Did you find Homer? 😉
You might want to make this a regular post.
According to the Times of Israel:
“…Ynet is reporting that by order of the Agriculture Ministry, the magnolia tree brought from the US by the president and planted by Obama and Peres earlier this afternoon is being dug up. Really.
Plants cannot be brought in from abroad “without undergoing a check” by the ministry, the report quotes the bureaucrats as saying…”
Pretty bad when a tree can’t pass the background check.
Steven, I suggest you dress for snow this weekend.
Fool me once – shame on you.
Fool me twice – shame on me.
If we spent trillions on lowering CO2 by .01 PPM we wouldn’t have bad forecasts due to global weirding. 🙂
We would have bad forecasts for the same reason we do now! They are not good at forecasting. Sometimes they even get lucky and the weather fools them b doing what they forecast.
That has to be within the margin of error acceptable by any climate department.
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40F +/- is the latest margin of error for determining an accurate forecast, along with 10 in +/- precipitation and 48 in +/- snow.
Steve – you have to believe or it doesn’t work.
😉