Sunny with a chance of two feet. 10/12
What’s with weather forecasters?
Some of these guys have been so wrong for so long you can make book on it, the weather, being usually 100% the opposite. We live just on the south end of the Lake Superior Snow Belt, meaning that either we get snow shovels out or the sun block 40. Our poor local guys have a 50 % chance of getting it right… they never do!
With us it’s hit or miss with the weather and local TV stations weather people who are recent grads of the Howard Sterns School of Broadcast Journalism. Most of them walk around all day with something other than a red face. They sell cars in the day time to put beer on their table. The question is ... How can so many people be so wrong about something as simple as the weather?
During the summer I work at the golf course and come in contact with weather daily as am sure you do to. But I get these really dumb calls from golfers asking about the weather going to be like at their tee times, like I can tell if it’s going to rain in the next five hours?
So, I‘ve come up with a system that TV weather people should use, it call RGC’s Window. I crank it open, a nearby window, and take a look. If there is only one cloud in the sky, I tell them "It’s Sunny all day". If there are two clouds I tell them, "there is a chance of clouds," three clouds " It’s going to be very cloudy" Then if the horizon is loaded I tell them, " it’s going to rain by noon, " even if it’s 11:30.
posted by Up North @ 1:10 PM
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Forecast for tonight is dark, turning darker with scattered lightness toward dawn.
When those people call you asking for weather guidance just say "Some are saying it will rain (insert snow here as needed) and some are saying it will be clear. I agree."
MLC
You're doing a good job of maintaining the "Coleman Reliability" reputation. Keep up the good work!
Can a leaf blower double as a snow blower? You could get two jobs done at once. Or, you could hook-up the snow plow from your neighbor and plow both leaves and snow into large piles waiting for you when spring arrives in (gasp) a year or so.
Use this time to experiment with new northwoods devices/inventions/weather forecasting techniques to help your fellow cheeseheads. You could make a fortune I tell ya! (Well, maybe just for trial lawyers). I mean, what else is there to do? Watch the Packers?
We all yearn for some good tales of "wobbin" experiments gone awry. Get out there and entertain us for God's sake!
Look, when your only four steps of the day are aimed at the bathroom, it doesn't give much time for trying to fit a turbo charger onto a chain saw.
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