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Post by Kaylan-R on May 1, 2006 14:02:28 GMT 11
I just noticed a funny thing while I was watching the news last night. I think my local weatherman has lost his courage to forecast the weather.
His report went a little like this:
"There could, possibly, be a slight chance of showers or rain this evening and into tomorrow morning with the possibility of some sun through the day. This may or may not be the same for tomorrow and the next day with the possibility of extending into the weekend."
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that translates to:
"I have no idea what's going on, so I'll cover all the bases just in case any weather actually occurs."
Have any of you noticed this sort of thing going on with your weatherman? Have we finally hounded him for the occasional bad forecast so much that he's decided not to forecast the weather?
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Post by Arctic Firefox on May 1, 2006 16:10:20 GMT 11
I seem to tune out when the weather report comes on. This has been happening with increasing frequency over the last few months. I watch it, I know numbers come up, and then I forget. It's probably just easier to have a look outside.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2006 18:30:07 GMT 11
Hehe. Yup that definitely sounds like the man's covering his bases. But I can see why he's doing it; it all depends on how long the cold front that's causing the rain will last in your region. I think he's saying that if the showers last for the amount of time he's predicting there, the front will have time to pass over during the rest of the day and allow for some warmer temperatures. But, it's pretty hard to predict exactly how long cold fronts will hover over cities, and if showers progress throughout most of the next day, there won't really be a chance for it to be extremely sunny. But this guy sounds even more uncertain than most! ;D Perhaps he's expecting an anvil to drop from the sky if he gets it wrong. Usually, the reports for the next day are pretty accurate, and the patterns for the next 4 days are alright, it's just the timing isn't completely spot on.
But as Arctic Fox has some sound advice, even meteorologists agree that the best way is to get some nice big windows installed into your home/office. ;D
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Post by DragonMornir on May 1, 2006 21:53:04 GMT 11
sounds like he doesnt know what hes talking about lol hehehe
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Post by Cat-Eyes on May 2, 2006 22:03:17 GMT 11
You could just have an umbrella and some sunscreen and a hat installed permanently in your car, office and house and be prepared |
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Post by Dark One on May 2, 2006 23:30:23 GMT 11
Our weatherpersons seem to be very confident when telling us what its going to be like
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Post by Rift on May 2, 2006 23:33:09 GMT 11
i think there is an easy solution, dont go outside..
or build a weather machine.... lol
hmm.. weather machine would be good.. actually.. now that u mention it..
STAY inside and BUILD (me) a wether machine hehehee
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2006 1:21:23 GMT 11
Our weatherpersons seem to be very confident when telling us what its going to be like But isn't that because in the jolly ol' UK, the weather's default setting is on 'rainy?' |
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Post by grunty on May 3, 2006 7:39:41 GMT 11
Iowa's weather is whatever minnesota doesn't want. And old mother nature is always PMS in the spring, Its raining, oh but now its sunny for 30 minutes, uhp, lets get some hail on that with a hint of 40mph wind, hehehe, that should ground the planes and keep people inside for the day...
FORECAST: Something will happen and you will do something about it!!
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Post by Pierlu on May 3, 2006 9:50:28 GMT 11
Confirmation: UK's default setting is rain.
Actually, 'default' is superfluous - there is no other setting...
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Post by Dark One on May 3, 2006 21:10:08 GMT 11
Our weatherpersons seem to be very confident when telling us what its going to be like But isn't that because in the jolly ol' UK, the weather's default setting is on 'rainy?' Not always. its nice and sunny here at the moment, and should be up to 22deg tomorrow |
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Post by Kangaruth on May 3, 2006 22:53:23 GMT 11
The weather here is really unpredictable, as Geneva pretty much has its own microclimate. We're in a valley with a big lake, surrounded by huge mountains, which makes it hard to predict what the weather fronts will do. Sometimes I've had the forecast telling me for days it's going to rain tomorrow, but the rain never comes. I quite often have Firefox telling me one thing and I look out the window and the weather is the complete opposite!
I love the weather here, though - we went from glorious summer to proper cold winter with about a week of autumn last year, and now we've done pretty much the same thing with about a fortnight of spring weather and now summer is here - I'm dreading moving back to the UK in December!
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Post by Dark One on May 3, 2006 23:50:11 GMT 11
You can probably look forward to a long winter when you do! This winter seems to have gone on for ages!
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Post by Fuil Dearg on May 4, 2006 1:44:42 GMT 11
You could just have an umbrella and some sunscreen and a hat installed permanently in your car, office and house and be prepared lol
i havent watched the weather in ages but when i use dto watch it sometimes the weather forecaster would seem pretty confident. i remember they seemed to go through a few periods of ifs and might be seeing something weather and could clear up by evening for a while. maybe the weather was just difficult to predict at that time. RTÉ replaced a lot of there older meteostat ppl on the weather forecast with a younger, attractive tv ppl for a while. |
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