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Monday, February 18, 2008

Weathermen/women & Meteorologists

Like a sucker, I had prepared for the worst. The forecasts for Sunday were predicting between 6-12 inches of snow by the end of the day (and night). Needless today, things calmed down around 7:00 PM and by them we had maybe gotten 3-4 inches. I don't get it! How can you be that far off? Part of it is my fault, I should be smart enough to realize how many times the weather folks do this. They pump up a storm a whole bunch and then inevitably the results are so much less than what actually happens.

With all the satellite technology out there that supposedly makes weather forecasting so much more detailed, it certainly hasn't helped much with forecasting. They can't get the snow fall right, but it gets better. They are off by hours for when snow or rain begins and sometimes they miss precipitation completely.

It gets to the point that if you want the best weather report, you might as well look out the window and make you own prediction. Geez!

Other News
  • Despite the (highly overplayed) weather forecast for Sunday, our AD&D campaign happened yesterday. It went very well and it was good to have the band back together!
  • I got to the dentist this morning only to find out that my hygienist couldn't get to work this morning. Oh well, it was just a trip to Neenah.
  • The running continues...3.5 miles this morning.

2 comments:

Josh Herman said...

Now, now. The forecasts come from computer generated models. Do you really expect a computer generated model to predict exactly what the atmosphere is going to throw at us?!

I sure hope not. Have a great day!

Jim Droste said...

Fair enough. I still wonder why with all our technological improvements in the area of computers, they can be so off sometimes?

Maybe we should have the computers say the forecast. Then we won't blame it on a person ;).